There is a melancholy which accompanies all enthusiasm. — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
All my films have always been released in the autumn, maybe because they're more melancholy to people. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy. — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
“You'll still make a great king." "Of course I will," he scoffed. "I'm melancholy, not daft.” — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption . — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
My sweet spot, the stuff I like the most, is hopeful melancholy. Optimistic melancholy. — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
Strike the concertina's melancholy string! Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing! Let the piano's martial blast Rouse the Echoes of the… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had… — Charles Dickens 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 sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy,… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind.… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
I'm afraid they're in love," he said, concerned. "They don't want to leave you." He lifted one hand from her waist to… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Bruges had the air of a ghost town. The high towers, the trees along the canals withdrew, absorbed by the same muslin:… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Oh! The melancholy, the fantastic melancholy of that invention that freezes sounds, just as Francois Rabelais had so clownishly imagined! Was it… — Maurice Renard Copy Share Image
Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
“Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Melancholy (1) An excess of black bile, anatomized by Robert Burton, embraced by the swooning Romantics as evidence of their fine sensibilities,… — Michael Bywater Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“I see life as a roadside inn where I have to stay until the coach from the abyss pulls up. I don’t… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I thought once how Theocritus had sung Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years, Who each one in a gracious… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“If you tell someone you have depression, they will often say, "Oh, I've been depressed before, too." The difference lies between being… — Northern Adams Copy Share Image
Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. In creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“I turn away from the light to the holy, inexpressible, mysterious night. Far away lies the world − sunk into a deep… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“There we were last summer, having a picnic in a sylvan setting. Birds were singing, the atmosphere was full of soft colours;… — Adrian Bell Copy Share Image
