“Or maybe, just maybe, he'd got close enough to sense the melancholy that sits at the core of her, usually hidden deep… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
“I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche. — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
“Cut my life into pizzas. this is my plastic fork. oven baking, no breathing, dont give a fuck if its carbs that… — Catherine Spann Copy Share Image
There's a whole kind of melancholy that you can only attain with reverb. That's an example of a technology introducing a whole… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages… Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk,… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“So few things we need to know. And the old wisdoms shudder in us and grow slack. Like renunciation. Like the melancholy… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
There's a certain darkness to Slipknot, but at the same time, there's a very strong dose of positivity. Stone Sour is the… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very… — Jean de la Bruyere 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
All our anxieties relate to time. The major problems of psychiatry revolve around an analysis of the despair, pessimism, melancholy, and complexes… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically. — Lee Radziwill Copy Share Image
Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like… — Alphonse Karr Copy Share Image
That's one thing about fashion that you really shouldn't be-you can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it. — Isaac Mizrahi Copy Share Image
“Melancholy", I repeated. I liked the way it sounded, like there was music hidden somewhere inside it. Kate Di Camillo, Because of… — Kate Di Camillo Copy Share Image
London, with its monotonous and melancholy houses, seems like an inharmonious patchwork, as if pieced together without design. Yet it is lovable… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
“Je pensais de meme que notre jeunesse etait finie et le bonheur manqué. I thought too that our youth was over and… — Alain-Fournier Copy Share Image
There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy. — Audrey Niffenegger 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
I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
“Fear and excitement are chemically the same. Sadness is a hair away from melancholy. Melancholy is almost pleasure, brushing against happiness. It’s… — Catherine Hanrahan Copy Share Image
It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
“Gregor's glance then turned to the window. The dreary weather—the rain drops were falling audibly down on the metal window ledge—made him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Even the most comic moment contains an element of melancholy; even the deepest tragedy harbors a trace of the ironic.” — Christine Montross Copy Share Image
The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so… — Beaumont Newhall 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
I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work… — May Sarton 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
“A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle… — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in… — Prince Augustus William of Prussia Copy Share Image
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the… — Alcaeus Copy Share Image
“Every cloud must have a silver lining Wait until the sun shines through Smile my honey dear, while I kiss away each… — Alex Flinn Bewitching 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
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