“I loved him the way some people are to be loved - from a distance.” — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument. — Ritchie Blackmore Copy Share Image
Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Some very silly songs can have an almost melancholy feeling when you put it in a different perspective. — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
“There is no light in the darkest melancholy - it's just a hole waiting for the soul and body.” — Karin Johannisson Copy Share Image
“Cut my life into pizzas. this is my plastic fork. oven baking, no breathing, dont give a fuck if its carbs that… — Catherine Spann Copy Share Image
“I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche. — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn’t point… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The tolling of yon dismal bell and the loud but solemn discharge of artillery hath announced to the nation the melancholy tidings… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
“Or maybe, just maybe, he'd got close enough to sense the melancholy that sits at the core of her, usually hidden deep… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
You know that melancholy feeling when you watch the end of a movie and you're crying - but also there is hope?… — Amber Mark Copy Share Image
“The hardest part for us was watching them harvest our Shamouti oranges.Those were our favourites, thick skinned, seedless and juicy.When the wind… — Michelle Cohen Corasanti Copy Share Image
“Melancholy isn’t always a disorder that needs to be cured. It can be a species of intelligent grief which arises when we… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed,… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
“Where is the happiness, the sunshine, where are those thick skittles of wood which crashed and bounced so nicely, where is my… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The shimmering, lucid tones and silver melancholy of I'll Be Right There give readers a South Korea peopled with citizens fighting for… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
Christian society is like a bundle of sticks laid together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evil, but,… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these… — James Payn Copy Share Image
“He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“It is warm, I am alive, I am calm and sad, I hardly know why. In this existence so even, so tranquil,… — George Sand Copy Share Image
“Then he remembered his wedding, the old times, the first pregnancy of his wife; he, too, had been very happy the day… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do… — Abraham Myerson Copy Share Image
Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the… — Richard Holt Hutton Copy Share Image
“When I lie waking all alone, Recounting what I have ill done, My thoughts on me then tyrannize, Fear and sorrow me… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best] — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“For how long would I be trapped in the condition of melancholy without going insane?” — Neda Aria Copy Share Image
The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images. — George Sand Copy Share Image
The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
People think I'm really melancholy and romantic and all whispery. I'm not at all. I'm very direct. — Norah Jones Copy Share Image