Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy? — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears? — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“Once, long ago, I heard the mermaids singing, but I do not think they will sing to me now.” — Toby R. Beeny Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically. — Lee Radziwill Copy Share Image
Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so… — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
“Even the most comic moment contains an element of melancholy; even the deepest tragedy harbors a trace of the ironic.” — Christine Montross Copy Share Image
“Gregor's glance then turned to the window. The dreary weather—the rain drops were falling audibly down on the metal window ledge—made him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
I'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend… — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
The whole life of Demosthenes... leaves the impression of a melancholy state of things, and of the brazen insolence of wickedness. A… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
I do have the ability to explore life and to be over the moon at the smallest thing - a few pints… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
Who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances,… — William James Copy Share Image
Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A happy clown inside spat out a pig-in-a-blanket and yelled at the cute waitress holding the tray. … I had to throw… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally exposed to danger whether the government have too much power or too… — James Madison Copy Share Image
These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“There is a phase of melancholy—a phase that has sloughed all urgency—that seems to me always a revelation of that ancient, familiar… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“...another comber of far pleasure followed the first, for his books came suddenly before his eyes, row upon row of volumes, row… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“There is, following an ample meal, a sort of pause in time, filled with a gentle slackening of thought and energy, when… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou Light divine! Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine! Oft will the body's weakness check… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Now, my dear little girl, you have come to an age when the inward life develops and when some people (and on… — William James Copy Share Image
Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster.” — Noelle Oxenhandler Copy Share Image
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
“Let the blue of the sky and ocean take your blue away when you feel blue” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a kid, I've always been interested in the poetry of melancholy, if you like. — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
