What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I wasn't born in New York and I may never live there again, and just thinking about it makes me melancholy, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To keep something, you must take care of it. More, you must understand just what sort of care it requires. You must… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“...another comber of far pleasure followed the first, for his books came suddenly before his eyes, row upon row of volumes, row… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
A pretext-not a cause-is sufficient for us to enter the "solitary situation", the situation of the dreaming solitude. In this solitude, memories… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions. — Chantal Kreviazuk Copy Share Image
Purcell is a composer who had a formative influence on British music - even The Who now cite him as an influence.… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
When the oldest Chatwin, melancholy Martin, opens the cabinet of the grandfather clock that stands in a dark, narrow back hallway in… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling — a somehow melancholy feeling. He was outside; he passed on… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I'll always be your friend, Talltail. But I'm a kittypet and you're a warrior. You'll always be a Warrior.” — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
“Her voice was soft and numinous, as befitted any Aizian singer, yet it was not just bells and melody. There was something… — Mary-Jean Harris Copy Share Image
“All things that we ordained festival, Turn from their office to black funeral; Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be… — George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax Copy Share Image
There is a sense of melancholy attached to seeing images of yourself from a different era, especially when you see a picture. — Roger Taylor Copy Share Image
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. [This miserable mode… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
