When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something. — John Keble Copy Share Image
A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding… — Michael Silverblatt Copy Share Image
I've once gotten in trouble with certain gay activists because I'm not gay enough! I am a morose homosexual. I'm melancholy. Gay… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like… — Alphonse Karr Copy Share Image
Be cheerful in all that you do. Live joyfully. Live happily. Live enthusiastically, knowing that God does not dwell in gloom and… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
[Prozac] didn't seem to have any effect whatsoever on my melancholy, my dark vision, and everything else that I'd taken it for. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy but an undoubted fact, that, even in the most thriving countries, part of the population annually dies of… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
“Only a fool will deny that an abundance of flowers can quicken a woman's blood, and that continuing sun can burn years… — Joe Ashby Porter Copy Share Image
As a bit of loner, prone to melancholy, with a questionable sexuality, I found great solace in the words of-Dylan, Joni, John… — Jill Sobule Copy Share Image
Despite her cough, Rose was in unusually good spirits. That was irritating. If I’m to trade my life for Rose’s, I’d appreciate… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
“What broke your heart so bad That you had to close every door, That you say you have a dark soul And… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I sometimes think about old tombs and weeds That interwreathe among the bones of kings With cold and poisonous berry and black… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“Well, here I am, just come home; a fellow gone to the bad; though I had the best intentions in the world… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“The eye turned to the fire gave back no light and he closed it with his thumb and sat by her and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm 'i th' bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pinned in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
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