“When I was young and filled with folly, I fell in love with melancholy” — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally exposed to danger whether the government have too much power or too… — James Madison Copy Share Image
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the… — Alcaeus Copy Share Image
“A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there. — Ismail Merchant Copy Share Image
The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! — John Milton Copy Share Image
A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I'd like to combine melancholy and sunshine... There's a sadness in Provence which no one has expressed... I'd like to put reason… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Dance with all the might of your body, and all the fire of your soul, in order that you may shake all… — Lola Montez Copy Share Image
To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Altizer distinguishes between melancholy as a condition marked principally by a sense of guilt, even a delirium of guilt, and the contemporary… — Alina N. Feld Copy Share Image
I'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend… — Norah Jones Copy Share Image