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 begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world. — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
“Every day it will be the same thing: at dusk I begin to feel melancholy and pensive.” — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton 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
Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
“She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Strike the concertina's melancholy string! Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing! Let the piano's martial blast Rouse the Echoes of the… — W. S. Gilbert 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
The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of… — Washed Out 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
I think people who are unhappy are always proud of being so, and therefore do not like to be told that there… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think there has to be an underlying sexuality. There has to be a perverseness to the clothes. There is a hidden… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is… — Henry Van Dyke 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
“Anyway, those things would not have lasted long. The experience of the years shows it to me. But Destiny arrived in some… — C.P. Cavafy 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
“Lincoln's story confounds those who see depression as a collection of symptoms to be eliminated. But it resonates with those who see… — Joshua Wolf Shenk 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
There comes a moment during which almost every girl or boy falls into melancholy; they are tormented by a vague inquietude which… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“I believe you did not have a happy life. I believe you were cheated. I believe your best friends were loneliness and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was one of Emily's earliest pleasures to ramble among the scenes of nature; nor was it in the soft and glowing… — Eliza Parsons Copy Share Image