“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
This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known… — James Otis 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
I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“And this the world calls frenzy; but the wise Have a far deeper madness, and the glance Of melancholy is a fearful… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
“The truth was that nature had endowed them with a larger share of brains than was common in their circle, and had… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business.… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
“This is where Mother and I differ greatly. Her advice in the face of melancholy is: 'Think about all the suffering in… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride;… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
'American Graffiti' stayed in my mind, but I don't think to this day I've done a film that captured that same level… — Jean Reno Copy Share Image
Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety; old crotchets and most sweet closes.… — John Marston Copy Share Image
And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
As a bit of loner, prone to melancholy, with a questionable sexuality, I found great solace in the words of-Dylan, Joni, John… — Jill Sobule Copy Share Image
“What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I am a lonely man,' Sensei said. 'And so I am glad that you come to see me. But I am also… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
What Flaubert refers to as the “mélancholies du voyage” is like the sadness I feel as one season departs and another arrives. — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
When I'm making the music, the songs that I get most excited about definitely make me feel good, but often, it's a… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Wiping away these invisible tears that have been hiding behind this smile for all of these years everything that you've known about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I went to bed feeling melancholy, wishing I could have poured out all my fears and insecurities to my mom. Wasn’t that… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“Often it feels like I am breathing today only because a few years back I had no idea which nerve to cut...” — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
Ah, there are moments for us here, when, seeing Life's inequalities, and woe, and care, The burdens laid upon our mortal being… — Phoebe Cary Copy Share Image
In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors. — John Milton Copy Share Image
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't be The familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skin Your head's under… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been… — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are the true sources of superstition. Hope, pride, presumption, a warm indignation, together with ignorance, are… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I think melancholy is part of the natural condition, you know. Anyway, I think it's the artist's function to have their melancholy… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“whose melancholy could be cured only by the spectacle of death, and who had a passion for red blood, as other men… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was a banker in Morocco when I first saw 'American Graffiti.' It was before I was an actor, a melancholy time… — Jean Reno Copy Share Image
I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying… — Kyffin Williams Copy Share Image
“I felt lonely, and in full possession of my loneliness. It was the first time I had owned anything of value.” — Ben Greenman Copy Share Image
“I can't help always falling upon it, and cry out with particular loudness and wailing, and become especially melancholy, when I see… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, and the other… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
