“Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“She indulged in melancholy, that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries...” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well. — Stephen Dillane Copy Share Image
Love is a gate that we all must face, for love is our fate. Even the darkness is something we have to… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end. — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
I liked 'The Darjeeling Limited' very much. There was a melancholy about that film that I liked. — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
Kevin Kline gives a master class in acting. He finds every nuance of mirth and melancholy in this wonder of a role… — Peter Travers Copy Share Image
...that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseperable from the perfection of the beautiful. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“He could now inhabit the world of words, with, at the back of his melancholy, a solace he had not known before” — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“At the end of the day, we are with ourselves — and this can either be the most beautiful thing or the… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, especially in the context of an acoustic song, I'm motivated to write by some amount of melancholy. — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
[Prozac] didn't seem to have any effect whatsoever on my melancholy, my dark vision, and everything else that I'd taken it for. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“For he used to say...that knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
The gentle rain which waters my beans and keeps me in the house today is not drear and melancholy, but good for… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“You’re going back?” asked Bod. Things that had been immutable were changing. “You’re really leaving? But. You’re my guardian.” “I was you’re… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
How melancholy a thing is success. Whilst failure inspirits a man, attainment reads the sad prosy lesson that all our glories "Are… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
One nation is to another what one individual is to another; with this melancholy distinction perhaps, that the former with fewer of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
“I can cope with, and even somehow enjoy, the sinking melancholy of Venice, just for a few days. Somewhere in me I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“While he recognized that you were unhappy and unwell, I think he couldn't help but feel that there was some part of… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's. — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
But my favorite part in my body are my dark circles. They define me. They reveal my melancholy. — Lea Seydoux Copy Share Image
Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption . — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“The room didn't look haunted or eerie now;it was only melancholy in it's faded grandeur.” — Elizabeth Peters Copy Share Image
My sweet spot, the stuff I like the most, is hopeful melancholy. Optimistic melancholy. — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
“Melancholy is a private thing. It's not something you just show to everybody.” — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
“I cried for a little while, taking a kind of melancholy delight in my own tears, and then I fell asleep.” — Barbara Cohen Copy Share Image
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