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
But my favorite part in my body are my dark circles. They define me. They reveal my melancholy. — Lea Seydoux Copy Share Image
“Melancholy is a private thing. It's not something you just show to everybody.” — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general. — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
“She indulged in melancholy, that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries...” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well. — Stephen Dillane 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
My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe… — Duke of Wellington Copy Share Image
What Simone Weil said politics has meant all along, which means that you fight for 11 percent, 12 percent, 13 percent, that… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I always have a decompression period at the end of a film. Sometimes it joyful, because you're just happy to be done.… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
I was a very devout boy and one day I heard the music of an Egyptian Koran singer in the mosque. The… — Shahin Najafi Copy Share Image
What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon. — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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 is an intimate aspect of human nature, while depression, like any other illness, creates fear and perplexity. Melancholy can displayed, depression… — Karin Johannisson Copy Share Image
Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and… — Bernard Levin 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
Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-imbroider'd vale Where… — John Milton 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
“She smiled. She was happy, yet sad. Life had never been more bittersweet. She looked at the sunset. The pink sky was… — Thisuri Wanniarachchi Copy Share Image
“It sometimes seemed so peculiar and wrong to her that you could be that intimate with someone, to go to sleep with… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
“Melancholia is, I believe, a musical problem: a dissonance, a change in rhythm. While on the outside everything happens with the vertiginous… — Alejandra Pizarnik Copy Share Image
“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“When I lie waking all alone, Recounting what I have ill done, My thoughts on me then tyrannize, Fear and sorrow me… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
