I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about… — Townes Van Zandt Copy Share Image
In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
I think melancholy is kind of a misunderstood emotion. I don't think it's necessarily an unpleasant or bad emotion. — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I think I was kind of melancholy as a kid. I spent a lot of time inside my own head, a lot… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk,… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
All our anxieties relate to time. The major problems of psychiatry revolve around an analysis of the despair, pessimism, melancholy, and complexes… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
When I was really sad, I would be like a little kid wiggling a loose tooth or touching a sore spot -… — Claire Dederer Copy Share Image
“A great melancholy was hanging in the air, giving their love a more languid, more tender feeling. It was like the love… — Georges Rodenbach 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
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You must expect from me nothing but the melancholy effusions of a broken Heart which is ever reverting to the Happiness it… — jane austen Copy Share Image
The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I like to express true emotions under the cover of melancholy: It includes fulfilment and pain, which describes human existence. — Volker Bertelmann Copy Share Image
Justice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“Spanish rain, A maiden’s dress, Apothecary pills And ancient thrills; Melancholy kills A girl’s caress. (—Roman Payne; Valencia, Spain, November 2nd 2012)” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human… — John Milton Copy Share Image
For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Such poor liquor do make a man's throat feel very melancholy--and is a disgrace to the name of stimmilent.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. [This miserable mode… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I drove in last night,' he said. 'I couldn't sleep, it was too hot. So I went outside. I was feeling melancholy.… — Judy Blundell Copy Share Image
“The greatest madness a man can be guilty of in this life, is to let himself die outright, without being slain by… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
From Roman times to the present, Italy has been a country to fall in love with - a tribute to all that… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
They say that no one's gonna play this on the radio. They said the melancholy blues were dead and gone. But only… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy.… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
Melancholy is kind of sweet sometimes, I think. It's not a negative thing. It's not a mean thing. It's just something that… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
“It seems melancholy weather.” “I prefer to think of it more as weather designed for reflection.” “You are the eternal optimist.” — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Melancholy persons are foreigners in their mother tongue. The dead language they speak foreshadows their suicide.” — David Kyuman Kim Copy Share Image
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![“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. [This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived withouten infamy or praise.]” quote by Dante Alighieri](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f45/dante-alighieri-590_crisis_the-hottest-places-in-hell-are-reserved_2915040.jpg)
