“...she had gone too far into the unhappiness of the world to start all over again.” — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time. — David Guterson Copy Share Image
“She had a certain guarded melancholy, no doubt, but no despair" (44).” — Gary A. Haugen Copy Share Image
Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.” — Raheel Farooq 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
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
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
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
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
It is a sad and very melancholy scene, which must strike everyone who knows and feels that we also have to pass… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I've always seen making movies as a bunch of little births and deaths. We come in. We don't know anybody or very… — Beau Bridges Copy Share Image
Gwynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness.… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
I think it's probably true that creative people are touched by melancholy more than the average person, and to the extent that… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
... there could be talking bunny rabbits, spiders who write English messages in their webs, and for that matter, melancholy choo-choo trains.… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I was creative before I started meditating, but I had, looking back, a weakness. I wasn't self-assured. I had a little bit… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are abated; the great… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“My prayers, my tears, my wishes, fears, and lamentations, were witnessed by myself and heaven alone. When we are harassed by sorrows… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
“The Journey One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“I hope you know that when you’re happy, or sad, or joyful, when you’re melancholy on spring days, or rainy nights, or… — James Russell Lingerfelt Copy Share Image
“To me, the summer wind in the Midwest is one of the most melancholy things in all life. It comes from so… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
A Scanner Darkly' is one of Dick's bleakest novels, and almost certainly his saddest. — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
