“Melancholy people have two reasons for being so: they don’t know or they hope.” — Albert Camus 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
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 mist is rolling over the fields. Why is a summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?” — Dodie Smith 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 is a melancholy which accompanies all enthusiasm. — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy. — Horace 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
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
“Well, here I am, just come home; a fellow gone to the bad; though I had the best intentions in the world… — Thomas Hardy 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
I don't know how many lions and leopards I've shot. I've shot two elephants, which was enough - never again. It's a… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
“. . . Like ashes of gold in a cinnamon-flame, My youthful desires have been burnt with the years– And tonight in… — Haoran Meng 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
Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Yet I experienced sometimes that the most sweet and tender, the most innocent and encouraging society may be found in any naturalobject,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Oh, anywhere, driver, anywhere - it doesn't matter. Just keep driving. It's better here in this taxi than it was walking. It's… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My curiosity, alas, is not the kind that can be satisfied by objective knowledge. Plato said that opinion is worthless and that… — Hayden Carruth 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
A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding… — Michael Silverblatt 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
...too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I loved him the way some people are to be loved - from a distance.” — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness, no greater cure than business.” — Robert Burton 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