But fish not with this melancholy bait For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Melancholy people have two reasons for being so: they don’t know or they hope.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“Ursula is something I will never feel again: she is Melancholy, cut into the soul and flesh.” — Luther Blissett Copy Share Image
To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy. — Andre Gide 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
“Alone, alone! Long she would recall the strangeness of the word, an echo aerated by melancholy vowels—alone. AT” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
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
I don't see that many movies where people are depicting middle-class suburban life in a more textured way. My feelings about the… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
That sadness of something that was once so sweet, sunny and quixotic and then it turns to cold, bitterness and silence. — Sophie Lianne Copy Share Image
There's a whole kind of melancholy that you can only attain with reverb. That's an example of a technology introducing a whole… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
“I sometimes think about old tombs and weeds That interwreathe among the bones of kings With cold and poisonous berry and black… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“All things that we ordained festival, Turn from their office to black funeral; Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A deep, black grief gripped Robert Kennedy in the months following his brother's assassination. He lost weight, fell into melancholy silences, wore… — Thurston Clarke Copy Share Image
Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep… — Lisa St. Aubin de Terán Copy Share Image
Hangovers are a vivid form of vengeance. Last night my apartment became the venue for a small, introverted chardonnay festival. A melancholy… — Liz Jensen Copy Share Image
With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land… — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
“But this was the thought of a depressive. An aspiring depressive, at the time. That was the odd thing about Leonard’s disease,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said. But he never liked anyone who--our friends,' said Clarissa; and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is a curious truth - and yet a truth forced upon us by daily observation - that it is not the… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
“The important thing for you to remember, Montag, is we're the Happiness Boys, the Dixie Duo, you and I and the others.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Lincoln's story confounds those who see depression as a collection of symptoms to be eliminated. But it resonates with those who see… — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
“You are well off, you are alone, Hasse had said. All very well—the man who is alone cannot be forsaken. But sometimes,… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Anyway, those things would not have lasted long. The experience of the years shows it to me. But Destiny arrived in some… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
...too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy. — Horace Copy Share Image
There is a melancholy which accompanies all enthusiasm. — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
“A mist is rolling over the fields. Why is a summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?” — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions. — Chantal Kreviazuk Copy Share Image
A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy. — Stephan Jenkins Copy Share Image
There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better. — Alain Resnais Copy Share Image
