The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

[crosstweed]

I absolutely had to share this!

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Which words resonate with you the most?

For me, these hit home. I rarely (or never) talk about them.

exulansis

n. the tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.
[People tell me that I don't talk much anymore, but honestly... there are a million things I'd like to say, if I thought they would understand. If I thought that I could communicate it, or that I wouldn't accidentally make it idle chat and a waste of breath. There are long car ride with my mom where I know she wants me to talk, wants to know what's going on, tries to ask but doesn't know how. And the whole time I can be sitting there, something on the tip of my tongue - but I never say it. I change my mind. So I go to say something else... but I don't.]


lachesism
n. the desire to be struck by disaster.

Weird, but true.

Alazia

Ambedo
n. a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake.

Mauerbauertraurigkeit
n. the inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.

swish fulfillment

n. the feeling of delicate luck after casually tossing something across the room and hitting your target so crisply and perfectly that you feel no desire to even attempt another shot, which is a more compelling argument for the concept of monogamous love than anything sung to a guitar.

gnasche

n. the intense desire to bite deeply into the forearm of someone you love.
#sorrymom

dialecstatic

adj. hearing a person with a thick accent pronounce a certain phrase and wanting them to repeat it over and over until the vowels pool in the air and congeal into a linguistic taffy you could break apart and give as presents.

Something tells me I'm going to be on this site for a long time...

 

[Lynx]

Chiplessness: When you find out the bag of chips has only two left in it - just enough to make you want more.

 

[Lynx]

Dripnaese: When you have a cold and need to blow your nose but you can't find a tissue, so you are frantically looking for something, ANYTHING, to blow your nose on before it drips onto your shirt.

 

[GodIsSalvation]

Lol I'm really liking this website.

[h=2]adronitis[/h]n. frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone—spending the first few weeks chatting in their psychological entryway, with each subsequent conversation like entering a different anteroom, each a little closer to the center of the house—wishing instead that you could start there and work your way out, exchanging your deepest secrets first, before easing into casualness, until you’ve built up enough mystery over the years to ask them where they’re from, and what they do for a living.



[h=2]silience[/h]n. the kind of unnoticed excellence that carries on around you every day, unremarkably—the hidden talents of friends and coworkers, the fleeting solos of subway buskers, the slapdash eloquence of anonymous users, the unseen portfolios of aspiring artists—which would be renowned as masterpieces if only they’d been appraised by the cartel of popular taste, who assume that brilliance is a rare and precious quality, accidentally overlooking buried jewels that may not be flawless but are still somehow perfect.

 

[Lynx]

Hmmm... Be careful.

Deporrow: When you find a list of obscure sorrows and reading it makes you aware of so many sorrows you never knew existed that you wind up being depressed.

 

[GodIsSalvation]

Hmmm... Be careful.

Deporrow: When you find a list of obscure sorrows and reading it makes you aware of so many sorrows you never knew existed that you wind up being depressed.

I think we have a winner lol.

 

[Tinkerbell725]

Hedonism

n.the belief that pleasure or happiness is the most important goal in life

 

[wisebeardman]

вешать лапшу на уши

 

[Lynx]

вешать лапшу на уши

Uh.... Google Translate gave me "Hang noodles on the ears." Wat? What is this I don't even...

 

[wisebeardman]

Uh.... Google Translate gave me "Hang noodles on the ears." Wat? What is this I don't even...

lol, of course,

if someone is going to tell you big story that is not real, they are going to hang noodles on your ears.

 

[jennymae]

lol, of course,

if someone is going to tell you big story that is not real, they are going to hang noodles on your ears.

You're just making this up?

 

[wwjd_kilden]

L'appel du vide: Call of the void
- The random urge you get when on something high up (ie building, bridge, cliff) to throw yourself off it

 

[Tinkerbell725]

vemödalen n. the frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist—the same sunset, the same waterfall, the same curve of a hip, the same closeup of an eye—which can turn a unique subject into something hollow and pulpy and cheap, like a mass-produced piece of furniture you happen to have assembled yourself.

John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

 

[wisebeardman]

You're just making this up?

I am not. its a true saying, but someone did send me an email this am trying to hang noodles on my ears

 

[Lynx]

lol, of course,

if someone is going to tell you big story that is not real, they are going to hang noodles on your ears.

Every culture has weird sayings. Over here if someone told me something I know is fake, I would say "Don't pee on my hands and tell me it's raining."

Langusion: When you run into a saying from another culture and you are confused because you have no idea what it means, though the person who said it understands it perfectly.

 

[wwjd_kilden]

This is how I feel when job- hunting:

[h=2]pâro[/h] n. the feeling that no matter what you do is always somehow wrong—that any attempt to make your way comfortably through the world will only end up crossing some invisible taboo—as if there’s some obvious way forward that everybody else can see but you, each of them leaning back in their chair and calling out helpfully, colder, colder, colder.

 

[jennymae]

Every culture has weird sayings. Over here if someone told me something I know is fake, I would say "Don't pee on my hands and tell me it's raining."

Langusion: When you run into a saying from another culture and you are confused because you have no idea what it means, though the person who said it understands it perfectly.

Well, I never...

 

[Lynx]

Well, I never...

Well bless your heart.

 

[didymos]

I absolutely had to share this!...


Mauerbauertraurigkeit
n. the inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like... {/quote]

Freudvoll
Und leidvoll,
Gedankenvoll sein,
Hangen
Und bangen
in schwebender Pein,
Himmelhoch jauchzend,
zum Tode betrübt -
Glücklich allein
Ist die Seele, die liebt.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

[Siberian_Khatru]

Without perusing the link, these two:

Ambedo
n. a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake.

Mauerbauertraurigkeit
n. the inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.