“It is warm, I am alive, I am calm and sad, I hardly know why. In this existence so even, so tranquil,… — George Sand Copy Share Image
There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine ― that is, activity ― which could solve it, is seen… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
Each picture with its particular environment and unique personal relationships is a world unto itself - separate and distinct. Picture makers lead… — John Huston Copy Share Image
When soured by disappointment we must endeavor to pursue some fixed and pleasing course of study, that there may be no blank… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann 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
“My father and grandfather were noises now there are just silent and disappointed.” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair; And they heard… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
There's constantly this melancholy about British hip-hop. People are always waiting for it to explode like American hip-hop, but it might just… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“So few things we need to know. And the old wisdoms shudder in us and grow slack. Like renunciation. Like the melancholy… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Well, I'm drawn to stuff that is darker. I will probably do a version of Jane Austen at some point because her… — Robert Sikoryak Copy Share Image
“What if you are just destined to get hurt, to be helplessly stuck in a point of time you no longer want… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
'American Graffiti' stayed in my mind, but I don't think to this day I've done a film that captured that same level… — Jean Reno Copy Share Image
I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't. — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately I am a completely impractical person, caught up in endless trains of thought. All of us are fantasists, ill-equipped for life,… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image