“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
“You'll still make a great king." "Of course I will," he scoffed. "I'm melancholy, not daft.” — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Like a moth is drawn to the light we are drawn to melancholy, we succumb to it.” — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
“Melancholy is a private thing. It's not something you just show to everybody.” — C.M. Stunich 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 baronet, in his old age, had been cast up by his vices on the shores of melancholy; heavy-eyed, grey-haired, bent, he… — Barry Pain Copy Share Image
“...and since, human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we… — Flaubert Gustave Copy Share Image
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There is a sense of melancholy attached to seeing images of yourself from a different era, especially when you see a picture. — Roger Taylor Copy Share Image
At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Byelorussian songs, if you've ever heard them are slightly monotonous, even mournful yet they do have a certain melancholy charm and compassion… — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
“Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Melancholy is an intimate aspect of human nature, while depression, like any other illness, creates fear and perplexity. Melancholy can displayed, depression… — Karin Johannisson Copy Share Image
As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness,… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In a strange city lying alone Far down within the dim West, Where the good and the bad and the worst and… — Anonymous 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
“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
“As he made his way back to his home on the Dijver, along the canals, beside the calm waters, Borluut felt his… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“You know the feeling when your Life gets a little bleak, not because of anything lacking but perhaps because of the overwhelming… — Debatrayee Banerjee Copy Share Image
“She had thought, instinctively, that Victoria had a remarkably beautiful face. The face showed an alert awareness of life: her lips- full,… — Kunal Sen Copy Share Image
“I am speaking of the evenings when the sun sets early, of the fathers under the streetlamps in the back streets returning… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“The staying awake was a great self-sacrificaing gesture of friendship, and wonderfully in keeping with our current mood of intense friendship and… — Antal Szerb Copy Share Image
