“Like a moth is drawn to the light we are drawn to melancholy, we succumb to it.” — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an… — Hector Berlioz 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
And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
“The fakirs always throng the sea-shore To find meaning in the chaos And then they too become melancholy Feeling nothing but their… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The serendipity of melancholy a road we all travel on in life. An aesthetic experience we all share, the darkness that shines. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“Perhaps she would have liked to confide all these things to someone. But how tell an undefinable uneasiness, variable as the clouds,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know. — Homer 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
What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time. — David Guterson Copy Share Image
“Of what are you thinking now?" she asked. "I am thinking of myself." "That's just what I am doing." "Are you also… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of… — William James Copy Share Image
Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed. — Donald Freed Copy Share Image
Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet. — Maurice Maeterlinck 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
Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
