Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
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
“On the outskirts of our sad savage town, I was overcome by a feeling of profound melancholy, though I fought it off… — Leonora Carrington Copy Share Image
The serendipity of melancholy a road we all travel on in life. An aesthetic experience we all share, the darkness that shines. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“Albert J. Guerard has justly called the story "one of the great dark meditationsin literature, and one of the purest expressions of… — Hunt Hawkins 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
Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty,… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
In 21 years there are a lot of ups and downs. There are melancholy times. There are sad times. There are happy… — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
Munch writes poetry with color. He has taught himself to see the full potential of color in art His use of color… — Sigbjørn Obstfelder Copy Share Image
“Somehow this wasn't the same as melancholy. It was something else, about how melancholy and nostalgia weren't relevant in the slightest. Things… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Life is like a game of Bloons Tower Defence-you've got to know when you're going to lose, you've got to stop fighting… — Maylinrose Copy Share Image
My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
I think I'm someone who is really prone to melancholy, and the super heavy, thick shows kind of spiral me out into… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
No one would ever cast me as an aristocrat. I think the big thing about being an Irish artist is access to… — Brian Dennehy Copy Share Image
Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart's… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy consideration that there should be several among us so hardened and deluded as to think an oath a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Take a moment in between breaths to let yourself see what's left to be seen, all the places you've been. Your old… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
“And you? What brings you here? I shrugged my shoulders. No idea? Hm, you’re still young. Eighteen? I froze. Nineteen? Twenty? Incredible,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Go from me, summer friends, and tarry not: I am no summer friend, but wintry cold, A silly sheep benighted from the… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine ― that is, activity ― which could solve it, is seen… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been… — Anonymous 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
