Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is. — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There's a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night's.” — Ed Gorman Copy Share Image
Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia is my vice. Nostalgia is a melancholy, and slightly saccharine, sentiment, like tenderness” — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you… — Del Shannon Copy Share Image
“We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Hip-hop, pop, dance - the common point is melancholy. That's international, and I like this word because it's not only about sadness… — Stromae Copy Share Image
“There's this charge in the air, and it takes me awhile to get it at first, to really put it all together.… — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
“More often than not, I get lost in magical melancholic emotions and thoughts just to get a vacation from the boring realities… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break. — Charlotte Bronte 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 music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this… — Florence Welch 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
Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
We went to the door and I let Asha in. I expected an uberawkward moment when he and Vayl met. But Asha… — Jennifer Rardin Copy Share Image
The frequency of disastrous consequences in compound fracture, contrasted with the complete immunity from danger to life or limb in simple fracture,… — Joseph Lister 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
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
“That's most interesting. But I was no more a mind-reader then than today. I was weeping for an altogether different reason. When… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“My melancholy wants to rest in the hiding places and abysses of perfection: that is why I need music.” — Nietzsche Friedrich Copy Share Image
I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me. — Charlie Hunnam Copy Share Image
A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
