Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“She stayed there, in her ball dress, without strength to go to bed, overwhelmed, on a chair, without a fire, without a… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together… — Darcey Steinke Copy Share Image
In everybody's life, there is love, there is sorrow, there is melancholy. And there might be danger as well. — Gautham Menon Copy Share Image
Sinatra's melancholy was the melancholy of mass (old) media technology - the 'extimacy' of the records facilitated by the phonograph and the… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
You can’t take back texts. If you come off all moody and melancholy in a text, it just sits there in your… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of… — William C. Bryant 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
It's a sign of this film's greatness that the enormous sadness that accompanies the final leave-taking of the circus interior is a… — Jonathan Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“I needed a time machine. I needed to run around the past and gather up all the old, unbroken parts of me… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their… — Amos Bronson Alcott 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
“Goth was sort of the melancholy cousin of punk that says: there's a lot of evil in this world, there's a lot… — Aurelio Voltaire Hernández Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does. — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be… — George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax Copy Share Image
“She was moved to a profound but pleasurable melancholy by the evidence that human life is brief and long survived by the… — Helen Hooven Santmyer Copy Share Image
“He’s quite as nervously broken down as I am, but it manifests itself in different ways. His inclination is toward megalomania and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“The beauty of melancholy cannot be attained by looking. You must embrace the terror it breeds. Then you will be pleased.” — S.E. Lindberg Copy Share Image
I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
The novel is like a melancholy form. It's about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“He neither acquits nor condemns, but merely relates, and, just as a dream is more often painful than happy, so a tone… — August Strindberg 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
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
“The melancholy comes over me, the dismal misery of not knowing where I am, or perhaps losing any sense of who I… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
I am sometimes accused by my peers of printing my pictures too dark. All I can say is that it goes with… — Don McCullin Copy Share Image
“The quiet, melancholy music gradually gave shape to the undefined sadness enveloping his heart, as if countless microscopic bits of pollen adhered… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I was hardly worthy of these surroundings. And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped about my body, and… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
One ought to avoid all unnecessary worry and exciting thoughts, and to cultivate a firm tranquility of mind. Melancholy reflections will in… — George Hackenschmidt Copy Share Image
How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
“By the time I left to go downtown for supper, I was at the high point just short of where intoxication begins… — James Agee Copy Share Image
The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic.… — Keren Ann Copy Share Image
It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these… — James Payn Copy Share Image
