“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
“She indulged in melancholy, that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries...” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well. — Stephen Dillane Copy Share Image
In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy. — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.” — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed. — Donald Freed Copy Share Image
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I think perhaps it is a generational thing. I talk to younger people and they say, Where is this melancholy city you… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of… — William Shakespeare 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
There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
“The melancholy can be black as suicide, gray as depression, white as emptiness and blue as mood. It may appear as fear,… — Karin Johannisson Copy Share Image
I'd like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it's quite… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
It had been boldly predicted by some of the early Christians that the conversion of the world would lead to the establishment… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. When body and mind are out of gear (and those twin parts… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune…Despair has steps leading upward. From… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and… — William Jacob Holland Copy Share Image
In American commercials in the past year or two, I don't know, the singers all sound like they're whining and the music's… — Greg Saunier Copy Share Image
Polaroid material has the most beautiful quality - the colors on one side, but then the magic moment in witnessing the image… — Stefanie Schneider Copy Share Image
“He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been granted the secret of motion, his… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“What is it that wells up so suddenly and menacingly under my heart, swallowing the soft air of melancholy? Are you pleased… — Novalis Copy Share Image
During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters. — John Ford Copy Share Image
I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love. — Arielle Dombasle Copy Share Image
You can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it. — Isaac Mizrahi Copy Share Image
There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
