I don't see that many movies where people are depicting middle-class suburban life in a more textured way. My feelings about the… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me.… — Mati Unt Copy Share Image
But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
“As he made his way back to his home on the Dijver, along the canals, beside the calm waters, Borluut felt his… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
I think I'm someone who is really prone to melancholy, and the super heavy, thick shows kind of spiral me out into… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
“Then he remembered his wedding, the old times, the first pregnancy of his wife; he, too, had been very happy the day… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Be careful, dear friends, that you do not misrepresent God yourselves. You who murmur; you who say that God deals hardly with… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others,… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about… — Townes Van Zandt Copy Share Image
When I write, I tend toward melancholy, and the few times that I've tried pure joy in music, it doesn't really work… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
“I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said. But he never liked anyone who--our friends,' said Clarissa; and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Melancholy is not one of my emotions. Quite seriously, I don't do melancholy. It's a miserable way to be. — Walter Mischel Copy Share Image
“She had thought, instinctively, that Victoria had a remarkably beautiful face. The face showed an alert awareness of life: her lips- full,… — Kunal Sen Copy Share Image
When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
“Out of a fired ship, which by no way But drowning could be rescued from the flame, Some men leap'd forth, and… — John Donne Copy Share Image
For the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
I think I was kind of melancholy as a kid. I spent a lot of time inside my own head, a lot… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Hands that never touch. Lips that never meet. The Almost Lovers, never to be.” — Rae Hachton Copy Share Image
