Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. In creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
What Simone Weil said politics has meant all along, which means that you fight for 11 percent, 12 percent, 13 percent, that… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Japanese horror films take the business of being frightening seriously. There is no attempt at postmodernism or humour. They are incredibly melancholy,… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
They say that the Dead die not, but remain Near to the rich heirs of their grief and mirth. I think they… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters. — John Ford Copy Share Image
I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying… — Kyffin Williams Copy Share Image
There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have the soundtrack for 'A Clockwork Orange,' which is kind of cool. I guess I don't really end up buying a… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love. — Arielle Dombasle Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a kid, I've always been interested in the poetry of melancholy, if you like. — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins. — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“At the end of the day, we are with ourselves — and this can either be the most beautiful thing or the… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this… — Mike White Copy Share Image
A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When people hit on feeling a certain melancholy or elation, it's a really exciting moment. I think making that connection is the… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
