The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Sometimes I like to write the lyrics while I'm on the road, because then you get even more melancholy. — MO Copy Share Image
“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“Melancholy isn’t a sign of the book’s end; it is its inspiration. Melancholy is reading’s muse.” — Andrew Piper Copy Share Image
Melancholy, she never loved me, see she only loved to be loved, but it's empty inside of her heart. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Je pensais de meme que notre jeunesse etait finie et le bonheur manqué. I thought too that our youth was over and… — Alain-Fournier Copy Share Image
I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins. — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
That's one thing about fashion that you really shouldn't be-you can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it. — Isaac Mizrahi Copy Share Image
“Melancholy", I repeated. I liked the way it sounded, like there was music hidden somewhere inside it. Kate Di Camillo, Because of… — Kate Di Camillo Copy Share Image
London, with its monotonous and melancholy houses, seems like an inharmonious patchwork, as if pieced together without design. Yet it is lovable… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like… — Alphonse Karr Copy Share Image
Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“And Elinor, in quitting Norland and Edward, cried not as I did. Even now her self-command is invariable. When is she dejected… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I only wanted absolute quiet to think out why I had developed a sad attitude toward sadness, a melancholy attitude toward melancholy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
They say that the Dead die not, but remain Near to the rich heirs of their grief and mirth. I think they… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
There is a general place in your brain, I think, reserved for melancholy of relationships past. It grows and prospers as life… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
I shall never forget Juliek. How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Even today,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Concha would cry when she found out I was dead, she should have no taste for life for months afterward. But I… — Jean Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“It's strange, isn't it, how you never know you're living the best time of your life at the moment you're living it?… — Anita Bartholomew Copy Share Image
For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Melancholia is, I believe, a musical problem: a dissonance, a change in rhythm. While on the outside everything happens with the vertiginous… — Alejandra Pizarnik Copy Share Image
“When the rain is on my lips And I shiver from the cold Thinking about life Its ups and downs And being… — Veronika Jensen Copy Share Image
“The cloudless day is richer at its close; A golden glory settles on the lea; Soft, stealing shadows hint of cool repose… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy. — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
“The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.” — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
No grief so soft, no pain so sweet, as love's delicious melancholy. — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
