Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy. — Virginia Woolf 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
“My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.” — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
“Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Es ist ein Unterschied, ob man sterben will oder ob man keine Lust zu leben hat. Wenn man sterben will, dann will… — Katarina von Bredow Copy Share Image
I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
“How indescribable the scent of autumn flowers was– barely a scent at all, really; just a faint, strange smell, pleasant but sad.… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. When body and mind are out of gear (and those twin parts… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
I'd like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it's quite… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
It had been boldly predicted by some of the early Christians that the conversion of the world would lead to the establishment… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
“The melancholy can be black as suicide, gray as depression, white as emptiness and blue as mood. It may appear as fear,… — Karin Johannisson Copy Share Image
“it’s that particular connection between melancholy and humor that Klibansky, Panofsky, and Saxl examined in Saturn and Melancholy (1964). Just as melancholy… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“His mouth went dry and for a split second he had a metallic taste on the sides of his tongue. He stood,… — Hugo Woolley Copy Share Image
“This is where Mother and I differ greatly. Her advice in the face of melancholy is: "Think about all the suffering in… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“Such melancholy is fitted to the fact that life offers causes for regret, that happiness is not always the point, and that… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“You have no effect on me with your gesture of Hippocrates refusing bric-a-brac from Artaxerxes. I dispense you from quieting me. Anyway,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I am the saint at prayer on the terrace like the peaceful beasts that graze down to the sea of Palestine. I… — RIMBAUD Copy Share Image
“I realised I never wanted to leave her side, and I never wanted her to have to struggle to be released from… — R.M. Miller Copy Share Image
“What was wrong with you?" "Melancholy. Nothing more or less than that. I have suffered it often. Not because I do not… — Rhiannon Thomas Copy Share Image
Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate… — A. E. Housman 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
Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy. — Andre Gide 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
“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
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
