I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything. — Sam Rockwell Copy Share Image
“Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness.” — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“When I say to the moment flying...linger a while-thou art so fair" - Faust” — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The fakirs always throng the sea-shore To find meaning in the chaos And then they too become melancholy Feeling nothing but their… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Despite her ability to enjoy most of their days, sometimes her despair was so great that, in a melancholy moment when she'd… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.” — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
She was not crying Which surprised me very much But I understand now That she had found places For her melancholy That… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Fear and excitement are chemically the same. Sadness is a hair away from melancholy. Melancholy is almost pleasure, brushing against happiness. It’s… — Catherine Hanrahan Copy Share Image
There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy. — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Of course, they didn't give names or dates, they spoke in what might be called abstract terms, but despite the seemingly detached… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
“By the time I left to go downtown for supper, I was at the high point just short of where intoxication begins… — James Agee Copy Share Image
The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic.… — Keren Ann Copy Share Image
Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“Rain is a lullaby heard through a thick, isolating blanket of clouds. It is the tinkling harp of water droplets; a moist… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“She thought, sometimes, that, after all, this was the happiest time of her life—the honeymoon, as people called it. To taste the… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Had it been possible for me to fix the plane permanently in the sky, to defy the winds and clouds and all… — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
I had the feeling of slipping down a smooth bottomless pit. It had nothing to do with Breuer and the people. It… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“She smiled. She was happy, yet sad. Life had never been more bittersweet. She looked at the sunset. The pink sky was… — Thisuri Wanniarachchi Copy Share Image
“It sometimes seemed so peculiar and wrong to her that you could be that intimate with someone, to go to sleep with… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“I turn away from the light to the holy, inexpressible, mysterious night. Far away lies the world − sunk into a deep… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“There we were last summer, having a picnic in a sylvan setting. Birds were singing, the atmosphere was full of soft colours;… — Adrian Bell Copy Share Image
“What are the things that make adults depressed? The master list is too comprehensive to quantify (plane crashes, unemployment, killer bees, impotence,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“Today I have come for a duel. Let's see which is greater - your depth or the depth of my sorrows.” — Akshay Shirsat Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid you'll find out all too soon that life's a melancholy business.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Spanish rain, A maiden’s dress, Apothecary pills And ancient thrills; Melancholy kills A girl’s caress.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
As a boy and even now, I am wont to melancholy. I do, probably once a day, experience a sincere heartbreak. — Jonathan Majors Copy Share Image
