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
“He’s quite as nervously broken down as I am, but it manifests itself in different ways. His inclination is toward megalomania and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“The beauty of melancholy cannot be attained by looking. You must embrace the terror it breeds. Then you will be pleased.” — S.E. Lindberg Copy Share Image
“You’re going back?” asked Bod. Things that had been immutable were changing. “You’re really leaving? But. You’re my guardian.” “I was you’re… — Neil Gaiman 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
Hangovers are a vivid form of vengeance. Last night my apartment became the venue for a small, introverted chardonnay festival. A melancholy… — Liz Jensen Copy Share Image
A deep, black grief gripped Robert Kennedy in the months following his brother's assassination. He lost weight, fell into melancholy silences, wore… — Thurston Clarke Copy Share Image
The novel is like a melancholy form. It's about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of… — Elif Batuman 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
I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
“He neither acquits nor condemns, but merely relates, and, just as a dream is more often painful than happy, so a tone… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
“Melancholy persons are foreigners in their mother tongue. The dead language they speak foreshadows their suicide.” — David Kyuman Kim Copy Share Image
Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You can’t take back texts. If you come off all moody and melancholy in a text, it just sits there in your… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“She stayed there, in her ball dress, without strength to go to bed, overwhelmed, on a chair, without a fire, without a… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together… — Darcey Steinke Copy Share Image
Sinatra's melancholy was the melancholy of mass (old) media technology - the 'extimacy' of the records facilitated by the phonograph and the… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“All things that we ordained festival, Turn from their office to black funeral; Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I was creative before I started meditating, but I had, looking back, a weakness. I wasn't self-assured. I had a little bit… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“By the time I left to go downtown for supper, I was at the high point just short of where intoxication begins… — James Agee Copy Share Image
The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic.… — Keren Ann Copy Share Image
Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these… — James Payn Copy Share Image
What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Of course, they didn't give names or dates, they spoke in what might be called abstract terms, but despite the seemingly detached… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Christian society is like a bundle of sticks laid together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evil, but,… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
“Where is the happiness, the sunshine, where are those thick skittles of wood which crashed and bounced so nicely, where is my… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
