I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't. — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
You'll find Swedes - maybe not as much as the Finns - thriving in melancholy. — Johan Renck Copy Share Image
“All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy” — Anatole France Copy Share Image
And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy.” — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood. — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
“The melancholy with which it described an inability to live each day to the full, to take every day for what it… — Nina George Copy Share Image
I, too, am going to go away soon,' she says, 'I am weary and weary of my weariness. Everything is beginning to… — Erich Maria Remarque 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
But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed. — Donald Freed Copy Share Image
“The sick constriction of the heart was undeniable; there was a melancholy truth in the fact that it was suffering which made… — Alfred Hayes Copy Share Image
Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“I felt less unhappy than usual because her melancholy expression, the way the vivid colour of her dress almost cut her off… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I close my eyes and listen to the ocean. I'm thinking about sailing, to England or maybe France. The way the wind… — Hannah Moskowitz 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
As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune…Despair has steps leading upward. From… — Victor Hugo 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
“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
That kind of unease, that melancholy, is of course partly my interpretation, but partly, I think, it's something that's really there [in… — Peter van Agtmael 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
“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
At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy. — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
“I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the top of the beer can.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln was a melancholy man, so he had a dark side that appeals to horror fans. — Bill Oberst Jr Copy Share Image
Now that the holiday blues are over, let's resume our everyday melancholy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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