Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well. — Stephen Dillane 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
“On a certain day in the blue-moon month of September Beneath a young plum tree, quietly I held her there, my quiet,… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Melancholy is kind of sweet sometimes, I think. It's not a negative thing. It's not a mean thing. It's just something that… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
I think perhaps it is a generational thing. I talk to younger people and they say, Where is this melancholy city you… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The novel is like a melancholy form. It's about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Bruges had the air of a ghost town. The high towers, the trees along the canals withdrew, absorbed by the same muslin:… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride;… — Johann Kaspar Lavater 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
“Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-imbroider'd vale Where… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I was always either so unreasonably and pointlessly happy that no one place could seem to contain me, or so melancholy, so… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“There I was, Talking to you in the language of sunsets. I wanted to hold that luminous wind in my hair, to… — Monica Laura Rapeanu Copy Share Image
The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green… — Salman Rushdie 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
“It might be high summer all about but inside me everything is fall. The lonesomeness of a sad, slow closing of days,… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
