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
Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist. — William Trevor Copy Share Image
What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy. — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“What if you wake up one fine morning only to realize that the life you have been living since the last few… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
She was not crying Which surprised me very much But I understand now That she had found places For her melancholy That… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“When people call it that I always get pissed off because I always think depression sounds like you just get like really… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
People think I'm really melancholy and romantic and all whispery. I'm not at all. I'm very direct. — Norah Jones 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
Love is a gate that we all must face, for love is our fate. Even the darkness is something we have to… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“No one was irritable; we have never known anyone to remain unhappy while digesting a good meal. We enjoy lingering in a… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The competition for the future of crime fiction is fierce, as it should be, but don't take your eyes off Craig McDonald.… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the… — Emile Durkheim 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
“It sometimes seemed so peculiar and wrong to her that you could be that intimate with someone, to go to sleep with… — Liane Moriarty 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
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