There is a melancholy which accompanies all enthusiasm. — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters. — John Ford Copy Share Image
There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity. — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
“I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.” — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy. — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still. — Henry David Thoreau 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
For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy… — Yukio Mishima 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
And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair; And they heard… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
“--perhaps monsters were misunderstood gods; deities with plans too grand for humans; a phantom of evil that drank from the roots of… — Roshani Chokshi Copy Share Image
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Its tall chimneys throw up black smoke, impregnating everything with soot, and the miners' faces as they traveled the streets were also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
“Then again, maybe knowing that life will only get duller, sadder, less hopeful afterward would inject melancholy into that moment. You’d miss… — Anita Bartholomew Copy Share Image
“All things pass in the end, even the worst melancholy. I opened my dresser and pulled out the lava box that held… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The Beach Boys were my favorite. I use to listen to their hits over and over, especially 'In My Room' and 'Don't… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
[The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The competition for the future of crime fiction is fierce, as it should be, but don't take your eyes off Craig McDonald.… — Laura Lippman 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
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
“Ah God! to see the branches stir Across the moon at Grantchester! To smell the thrilling-sweet and rotten Unforgettable, unforgotten River-smell, and… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
“What was he doing during the trip? What was he thinking about? As he had during the morning, he watched the trees… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“My prayers, my tears, my wishes, fears, and lamentations, were witnessed by myself and heaven alone. When we are harassed by sorrows… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
![“[The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the salt solution of life. It cures the lethargies of flesh and spirit with the slap and shake of elemental force. It cradles and comforts. Give it trust and it holds you…” quote by Marya Mannes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0c1/marya-mannes-6222_comfort_the-sea-is-the-healer-and-the-reviver-it_2686471.jpg)
