There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle… — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in… — Prince Augustus William of Prussia Copy Share Image
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the… — Alcaeus 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
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
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages… Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
“So few things we need to know. And the old wisdoms shudder in us and grow slack. Like renunciation. Like the melancholy… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
There's a certain darkness to Slipknot, but at the same time, there's a very strong dose of positivity. Stone Sour is the… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm 'i th' bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pinned in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Every cloud must have a silver lining Wait until the sun shines through Smile my honey dear, while I kiss away each… — Alex Flinn Bewitching 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
“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
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
“The men we met walked past, slow, unsmiling, with downcast eyes, as if the melancholy of a over-burdened earth had weighted their… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy.… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I'd like to combine melancholy and sunshine... There's a sadness in Provence which no one has expressed... I'd like to put reason… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime!… — Leonardo Sciascia Copy Share Image
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we… — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
“Once in a while, groundless melancholy would darken my face, a dull and incomprehensible nostalgia for times never experienced would invade me.” — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves… — Richard Henry Dana, Jr Copy Share Image
“That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“Melancholy is a term I learned about in my reading and I’ve discovered it can be wildly addictive to nurse one’s own… — Gabe Habash Copy Share Image
“Men do not die on mornings like this: whatever happens then happens in their name, like the lives of obscure saints, who… — Michael Hogan Copy Share Image
I don't see that many movies where people are depicting middle-class suburban life in a more textured way. My feelings about the… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
“Alone, alone! Long she would recall the strangeness of the word, an echo aerated by melancholy vowels—alone. AT” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
