Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.” — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy. — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me - those are some of the things… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
“And that's the bottom layer in old boxes: melancholy, an indefinable sense of loss. You dig around and it comes swirling up… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Their leaving made me melancholy, though I also felt something like relief when they disappeared into the dark trees. I hadn't needed… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I think people who are unhappy are always proud of being so, and therefore do not like to be told that there… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think there has to be an underlying sexuality. There has to be a perverseness to the clothes. There is a hidden… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
America, the Idea of: We yearned for its beer and jazz, its smoke-filled nightclubs, its Edward Hopper bars, the melancholy of rainy… — Michael Bywater Copy Share Image
Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is… — Henry Van Dyke 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
“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
Counting our blessings can transform melancholy into cheerful mass; laughter and joy are expressions of praise and thanksgiving for life's glories. When… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
There comes a moment during which almost every girl or boy falls into melancholy; they are tormented by a vague inquietude which… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“I believe you did not have a happy life. I believe you were cheated. I believe your best friends were loneliness and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was one of Emily's earliest pleasures to ramble among the scenes of nature; nor was it in the soft and glowing… — Eliza Parsons Copy Share Image
Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“creeping fear of madness often accompanies depression. Sufferers wonder if their black moods will ever lift, or if their feelings of alienation… — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
No grief so soft, no pain so sweet, as love's delicious melancholy. — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears? — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“Once, long ago, I heard the mermaids singing, but I do not think they will sing to me now.” — Toby R. Beeny Copy Share Image
Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy? — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
