infinite sadness

Sorrow without end

Infinite sadness describes grief or melancholy so profound it feels boundless and unending.

The phrase gained wide recognition from the 1995 Smashing Pumpkins album *Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness*, lending it a certain dramatic or poetic quality: She stared out the window with infinite sadness.

Often used with gentle irony for everyday disappointments.

Related

heavy heart · aching · emptiness · abyss · black hole · bottomless · overwhelming · heartbreak · broken heart · desolation · weeping · hollow · darkness · dark night of the soul · endless · void · longing · anguish

Opposites
emotional valence

infinite sadnessrapture

Overwhelming ecstatic feeling

nirvana · eternal bliss · euphoria · elation · jubilation

intensity/depth

infinite sadnessemotional numbness

Absence of felt affect

apathy

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG