One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy.… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime!… — Leonardo Sciascia Copy Share Image
In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I think I was kind of melancholy as a kid. I spent a lot of time inside my own head, a lot… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
How melancholy a thing is success. Whilst failure inspirits a man, attainment reads the sad prosy lesson that all our glories "Are… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
The gentle rain which waters my beans and keeps me in the house today is not drear and melancholy, but good for… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land… — Maggie Shipstead 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
The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep… — Lisa St. Aubin de Terán Copy Share Image
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I don't see that many movies where people are depicting middle-class suburban life in a more textured way. My feelings about the… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
... there could be talking bunny rabbits, spiders who write English messages in their webs, and for that matter, melancholy choo-choo trains.… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I drove in last night,' he said. 'I couldn't sleep, it was too hot. So I went outside. I was feeling melancholy.… — Judy Blundell Copy Share Image
“The greatest madness a man can be guilty of in this life, is to let himself die outright, without being slain by… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. [This miserable mode… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
From Roman times to the present, Italy has been a country to fall in love with - a tribute to all that… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy.… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
They say that no one's gonna play this on the radio. They said the melancholy blues were dead and gone. But only… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Melancholy is kind of sweet sometimes, I think. It's not a negative thing. It's not a mean thing. It's just something that… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
“It seems melancholy weather.” “I prefer to think of it more as weather designed for reflection.” “You are the eternal optimist.” — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
“...her melancholy mood had followed her home. It clung to her like perfume, filling the rooms she visited with the scent of… — Elise K. Ackers 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
The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I like to express true emotions under the cover of melancholy: It includes fulfilment and pain, which describes human existence. — Volker Bertelmann 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
“Spanish rain, A maiden’s dress, Apothecary pills And ancient thrills; Melancholy kills A girl’s caress. (—Roman Payne; Valencia, Spain, November 2nd 2012)” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human… — John Milton Copy Share Image
For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be… — George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does. — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
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