There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“There is, following an ample meal, a sort of pause in time, filled with a gentle slackening of thought and energy, when… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been granted the secret of motion, his… — Steven Millhauser 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
There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy. — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your… — Vladimir Nabokov 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
To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy? — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton 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
To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy. — Andre Gide 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
“Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In… — John Green Copy Share Image
“And what the music elicits—in me, in most everyone who hears it and takes to it—is a strangely comforting, sensual melancholy, a… — William Todd Schultz Copy Share Image
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. — Samuel Johnson 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
There's a book that's critical to understanding anxiety, a 17th-century book, 'The Anatomy of Melancholy,' by Robert Burton. I wanted to write… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
“Oh, anywhere, driver, anywhere - it doesn't matter. Just keep driving. It's better here in this taxi than it was walking. It's… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“The important thing for you to remember, Montag, is we're the Happiness Boys, the Dixie Duo, you and I and the others.… — Ray Bradbury 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
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
