Ever since I was a kid, I've always been interested in the poetry of melancholy, if you like. — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
“Let the blue of the sky and ocean take your blue away when you feel blue” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
“Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster.” — Noelle Oxenhandler Copy Share Image
Come, let us give a little time to folly... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour… — Bonaventure Copy Share Image
Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates. — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
I was not always free from melancholy; but even melancholy had its charms. — Madame Roland 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
“It might be high summer all about but inside me everything is fall. The lonesomeness of a sad, slow closing of days,… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Perhaps she would have liked to confide all these things to someone. But how tell an undefinable uneasiness, variable as the clouds,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet… — John Fletcher Copy Share Image
We're all connected to melancholy. It's an experience that moves us. And it defines us, the sadness we face it shapes our… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
The Future is distant, like the Past, and therefore sentimental. The mere element "Past" must be retained to sponge up and absorb… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape from society but also… — Roderick Nash Copy Share Image
The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Men who read a lot have a more sensitive disposition, added Fowler. [...] I did not know what to say to this.… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Be careful, dear friends, that you do not misrepresent God yourselves. You who murmur; you who say that God deals hardly with… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Their leaving made me melancholy, though I also felt something like relief when they disappeared into the dark trees. I hadn't needed… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“The important thing for you to remember, Montag, is we're the Happiness Boys, the Dixie Duo, you and I and the others.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is a curious truth - and yet a truth forced upon us by daily observation - that it is not the… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
“I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said. But he never liked anyone who--our friends,' said Clarissa; and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“To me, the summer wind in the Midwest is one of the most melancholy things in all life. It comes from so… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
“He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“You are well off, you are alone, Hasse had said. All very well—the man who is alone cannot be forsaken. But sometimes,… — Erich Maria Remarque 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