PHILOSOPHY Away from The Herd. Weltschmerz and Mannequins Amongst Public Soul. Aug 8, 2024 5 min read Weltschmerz (German: [ˈvɛltʃmɛɐ̯ts]; literally "world-pain") is a literary concept describing the feeling experienced by an individual who believes that reality can never satisfy the expectations of the mind, resulting in "a mood of weariness or sadness about life arising from the acute awareness of evil and suffering"