“The room didn't look haunted or eerie now;it was only melancholy in it's faded grandeur.” — Elizabeth Peters Copy Share Image
My sweet spot, the stuff I like the most, is hopeful melancholy. Optimistic melancholy. — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning. — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there. — Ismail Merchant Copy Share Image
Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
All my films have always been released in the autumn, maybe because they're more melancholy to people. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
“The old summer's-end melancholy nips at my heels. There's no school to go back to; no detail of my life will change… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic… — Natalie Imbruglia Copy Share Image
All green was anished sae of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue; Sae the green holly with its berries… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Why do all people see melancholy as something bad? For me it is intense time I spend alone with me and my… — Damaris Wieser Copy Share Image
For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Maybe all Americans who suffer from melancholy act as if they have gone mad. But I truly thought he might throw himself… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I was a very devout boy and one day I heard the music of an Egyptian Koran singer in the mosque. The… — Shahin Najafi Copy Share Image
“The anaesthetic effect of habit being destroyed, I would begin to think - and to feel - such melancholy things.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Oh! The melancholy, the fantastic melancholy of that invention that freezes sounds, just as Francois Rabelais had so clownishly imagined! Was it… — Maurice Renard Copy Share Image
“How can that not leave you bruised somewhere? How can that not turn you into the sort of person liable to break… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
It is odd what notions men seem to have of the scantiness of a woman's resources. They do not find it anything… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
“Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In… — John Green Copy Share Image
You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Now, my dear little girl, you have come to an age when the inward life develops and when some people (and on… — William James Copy Share Image
Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...another comber of far pleasure followed the first, for his books came suddenly before his eyes, row upon row of volumes, row… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“There is, following an ample meal, a sort of pause in time, filled with a gentle slackening of thought and energy, when… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou Light divine! Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine! Oft will the body's weakness check… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“The Last Leaf I saw him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
