Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
There are some people who think that they should be always mourning, that they should put a continual constraint upon themselves, and… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness,… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
One ought to avoid all unnecessary worry and exciting thoughts, and to cultivate a firm tranquility of mind. Melancholy reflections will in… — George Hackenschmidt 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
I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost… — George Will Copy Share Image
It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness. — Mathieu Amalric Copy Share Image
“There can be few places more conducive to the quiet, solitary contemplation of melancholy thoughts than a window-seat; and if beyond the… — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
“For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, and the other… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety; old crotchets and most sweet closes.… — John Marston Copy Share Image
By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the… — Edgar Allan Poe 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
All green was anished sae of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue; Sae the green holly with its berries… — George Crabbe 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
“His jaw was slack and his mouth open, and he wondered if perhaps he would drown eventually; drowned by the falling rain.” — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“Let the blue of the sky and ocean take your blue away when you feel blue” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, especially in the context of an acoustic song, I'm motivated to write by some amount of melancholy. — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I read a lot - surveys of vernacular music. A lot of it is the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music,… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
