Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou Light divine! Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine! Oft will the body's weakness check… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
“He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
When I was really sad, I would be like a little kid wiggling a loose tooth or touching a sore spot -… — Claire Dederer Copy Share Image
“I am speaking of the evenings when the sun sets early, of the fathers under the streetlamps in the back streets returning… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a… — Samuel Johnson 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
“The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.” — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“Spanish rain, A maiden’s dress, Apothecary pills And ancient thrills; Melancholy kills A girl’s caress.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“We [of Thelema] are whole-hearted extroverts; the penalty of restricting one self is anything from neurosis to down right lunacy; in particular,… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
In American commercials in the past year or two, I don't know, the singers all sound like they're whining and the music's… — Greg Saunier Copy Share Image
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“Every day it will be the same thing: at dusk I begin to feel melancholy and pensive.” — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are the true sources of superstition. Hope, pride, presumption, a warm indignation, together with ignorance, are… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The Future is distant, like the Past, and therefore sentimental. The mere element "Past" must be retained to sponge up and absorb… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth,… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy. — Horace Copy Share Image
“My prayers, my tears, my wishes, fears, and lamentations, were witnessed by myself and heaven alone. When we are harassed by sorrows… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He had been there long enough to have treated most of their fathers and mothers, many grandfathers and grandmothers too, and recognise… — Niall Williams 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
