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Joylessness

noun
1.
A feeling of dismal cheerlessness.





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"Joylessness" Quotes from Famous Books



... supremacy? So I have always longed; and not grossly; mine has never been the sensual passion; it has been beauty and the heights of life that I have sought. And my curse has been that for me has come no appeasement, no exaltation, but only, always, a dark smouldering of joylessness. With my own hand I broke the great and sacred devotion that blessed my life, because I was thus cursed. Jealousy, the craving for a more complete possession, for the ecstasy I had not found, blind forces in my blood, drove me on to the destruction of that precious ...
— Tante • Anne Douglas Sedgwick


Words linked to "Joylessness" :   joyless, cheerlessness, uncheerfulness


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