Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's. — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
I liked 'The Darjeeling Limited' very much. There was a melancholy about that film that I liked. — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
Love is a gate that we all must face, for love is our fate. Even the darkness is something we have to… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Maybe all Americans who suffer from melancholy act as if they have gone mad. But I truly thought he might throw himself… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic… — Natalie Imbruglia Copy Share Image
“The old summer's-end melancholy nips at my heels. There's no school to go back to; no detail of my life will change… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
“The baronet, in his old age, had been cast up by his vices on the shores of melancholy; heavy-eyed, grey-haired, bent, he… — Barry Pain Copy Share Image
“...and since, human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we… — Flaubert Gustave Copy Share Image
Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“In an old family album Ever again you return, Melancholy, O meekness of the solitary soul. A golden day glows and expires.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The funeral is a quiet one, despite the number of mourners present. There are no sobs or flailing handkerchiefs. There is a… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“The zone of melancholy which I then entered was as distinct from the zone in which I had been bounding with joy… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“He really had experienced every tiniest increment of time in the four decades since then, and yet here he was surprised to… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“And this the world calls frenzy; but the wise Have a far deeper madness, and the glance Of melancholy is a fearful… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
“The truth was that nature had endowed them with a larger share of brains than was common in their circle, and had… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride;… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“She thought, sometimes, that, after all, this was the happiest time of her life—the honeymoon, as people called it. To taste the… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the… — Richard Holt Hutton Copy Share Image
To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“When the rain is on my lips And I shiver from the cold Thinking about life Its ups and downs And being… — Veronika Jensen Copy Share Image
These pages reproduce me very imperfectly, and there are many things in me of which I find no trace in them.I suppose… — Henri-Frédéric Amiel Copy Share Image
Congratulations," he said, his voice dry. "You finally managed to find a woman as tragically noble as yourself. I didn't think one… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
We will enjoy ourselves with the forms that are given us: a human face, a hand, the breast of a woman or… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Counting our blessings can transform melancholy into cheerful mass; laughter and joy are expressions of praise and thanksgiving for life's glories. When… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
