If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
That kind of unease, that melancholy, is of course partly my interpretation, but partly, I think, it's something that's really there [in… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
“We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
I shall never forget Juliek. How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Even today,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Life is like a game of Bloons Tower Defence-you've got to know when you're going to lose, you've got to stop fighting… — Maylinrose Copy Share Image
Yet I experienced sometimes that the most sweet and tender, the most innocent and encouraging society may be found in any naturalobject,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you… — Del Shannon Copy Share Image
“Now, though, there was a second part, an artifact of his recent illness, as if his melancholy had, in a universe adjacent… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“She indulged in melancholy, that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries...” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy.… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
A deep, black grief gripped Robert Kennedy in the months following his brother's assassination. He lost weight, fell into melancholy silences, wore… — Thurston Clarke Copy Share Image
When I'm making the music, the songs that I get most excited about definitely make me feel good, but often, it's a… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime!… — Leonardo Sciascia Copy Share Image
She had one of those charming faces which, according to the angle from which you see them, look either melancholy or impertinent.… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic… — Natalie Imbruglia Copy Share Image
