Sadness Tropes



"''Laugh, and the world laughs with you;

Weep, and you weep alone.

For this sad old earth must borrow its mirth,

But has grief enough of its own.''"

Tropes used to evoke or convey sadness and melancholy. Happiness Tropes are their natural opposite.

See also:
 * Death Tropes
 * Tear Jerker
 * Tear Tropes

List of tropes:

 * A Cup Angst
 * Alone in A Crowd
 * Angst
 * Adaptational Angst Upgrade
 * Age Appropriate Angst
 * Angst Coma
 * Angst Dissonance
 * Angst Nuke
 * Angst What Angst
 * Antagonist in Mourning
 * Atonement Detective
 * Bad Dreams
 * Beard of Sorrow
 * Bearer of Bad News
 * Berserker Tears
 * Big No
 * Biting the Handkerchief
 * Bittersweet Ending
 * Bleak Level
 * Break the Cutie
 * Broken Bird
 * Consolation Backfire
 * Corner of Woe
 * Cradle of Loneliness
 * Creator Breakdown
 * Cry Into Chest
 * Dark and Troubled Past
 * Death By Despair
 * Death By Newbery Medal
 * Death Is a Sad Thing
 * Death Is Such an Odd Thing
 * Despair Event Horizon
 * Despair Speech
 * Deus Angst Machina
 * Diabolus Ex Machina
 * Dirty Business
 * Don't You Dare Pity Me
 * Downer Beginning
 * Downer Ending
 * Driven to Suicide
 * Drop What You Are Doing
 * Drowning My Sorrows
 * Drowning Our Romantic Sorrows
 * Dull Eyes of Unhappiness
 * Dumb Struck
 * Dysfunction Junction
 * The Eeyore
 * Emo
 * Emo Teen
 * Fantastic Angst
 * Five Stages of Grief
 * Forgotten Fallen Friend
 * Fragile Flower
 * From Bad to Worse
 * Goodbye Cruel World
 * Grave Clouds
 * Gray Rain of Depression
 * Grumpy Bear
 * Heartbreaking in Hindsight
 * Heartbroken Badass
 * Heroic BSOD
 * Heroic Self-Deprecation
 * He Will Not Cry So I Cry for Him
 * Hurting Hero
 * Howl of Sorrow
 * I Just Want to Have Friends
 * I Miss Mom
 * Internalized Categorism
 * It Always Rains At Funerals
 * It's All My Fault
 * Its Always Sunny At Funerals
 * Kill the Ones You Love
 * Lonely Funeral
 * Lonely Piano Piece
 * Losing the Team Spirit
 * Lyrical Dissonance
 * Mangst
 * Manly Tears
 * Meaningful Funeral
 * Men Don't Cry
 * Misery Builds Character
 * Misery Poker
 * My God, What Have I Done?
 * Ocular Gushers
 * One-Woman Wail
 * Personal Effects Reveal
 * Player Punch
 * Rage Against the Reflection
 * Sad Clown
 * Sad Times Montage
 * Sand in My Eyes
 * Sex for Solace
 * Shrine to The Fallen
 * Shoo the Dog
 * Shoot the Dog
 * Shoot the Shaggy Dog
 * Shower of Angst
 * Solemn Ending Theme
 * Sparkling Stream of Tears
 * Supernatural Angst
 * Survivor Guilt
 * Tearful Smile
 * Tears From a Stone
 * Tear Jerker
 * Tears of Fear
 * Tears of Remorse
 * Tender Tears
 * This Cannot Be!
 * This Is Unforgivable!
 * To Absent Friends
 * Trauma Conga Line
 * Trauma Swing
 * Troubled Child
 * Troubled Fetal Position
 * Troubled Sympathetic Bigot
 * True Art Is Angsty
 * Twisted Christmas
 * Unable to Cry
 * Villainous Breakdown
 * Villainous BSOD
 * Wall Glower
 * Wangst
 * Watching Troy Burn
 * The Woobie
 * Iron Woobie
 * Jerkass Woobie
 * Stoic Woobie
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
 * Your Days Are Numbered

Good God, there's a lot more of these than there are Happiness Tropes, aren't there?

Just because sadness comes in more varieties than happiness doesn't mean that it's more prevalent.