“The greatest madness a man can be guilty of in this life, is to let himself die outright, without being slain by… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 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
I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art. — Vladimir Nabokov 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
“I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the top of the beer can.” — Sylvia Plath 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
“He saw her red eyes filled with tears of anger. "Tell me why this rage?" He asked holding her in his arms.… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
I have come to know that it [death] is an important thing to keep in mind - not to complain or to… — Anonymous 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
“His mouth went dry and for a split second he had a metallic taste on the sides of his tongue. He stood,… — Hugo Woolley Copy Share Image
“He had done nothing on Christmas day, just wandered around outside in the frozen woods. Hard ground, chill winds and bare branches… — R.D. Ronald Copy Share Image
Who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances,… — William James Copy Share Image
I was a banker in Morocco when I first saw 'American Graffiti.' It was before I was an actor, a melancholy time… — Jean Reno Copy Share Image
I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me… — Boethius Copy Share Image
In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“A hand-rolled cigarette to smoke, Another one bought from the store. If he lights one, his mind's lit up Another one burns… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. — Charles Dickens 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
One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically. — Lee Radziwill Copy Share Image
I've always seen making movies as a bunch of little births and deaths. We come in. We don't know anybody or very… — Beau Bridges Copy Share Image
“My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.” — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages.... Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent,… — Charles Baudelaire 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
“Let’s call my mood melancholy; let’s call it remembrance. Or maybe let’s call it longing. Yes, let’s call it longing instead.” — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image