“There is a phase of melancholy—a phase that has sloughed all urgency—that seems to me always a revelation of that ancient, familiar… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“From the house I built for you In my heart A few dreams ago Only one shattered window remains In which the… — Monica Laura Rapeanu Copy Share Image
My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy.… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Rain is a lullaby heard through a thick, isolating blanket of clouds. It is the tinkling harp of water droplets; a moist… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. — David Hume Copy Share Image
“When I say to the moment flying...linger a while-thou art so fair" - Faust” — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape from society but also… — Roderick Nash Copy Share Image
Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
[The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
“I felt lonely, and in full possession of my loneliness. It was the first time I had owned anything of value.” — Ben Greenman Copy Share Image
“The anaesthetic effect of habit being destroyed, I would begin to think - and to feel - such melancholy things.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm at a place in my life where I'm really strangely happy, and in awe of how great the… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
“The staying awake was a great self-sacrificaing gesture of friendship, and wonderfully in keeping with our current mood of intense friendship and… — Antal Szerb Copy Share Image
Tis going, I own, like the Knight of the Woeful Countenance, in quest of melancholy adventures--but I know not how it is,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life. — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
All our anxieties relate to time. The major problems of psychiatry revolve around an analysis of the despair, pessimism, melancholy, and complexes… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
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