Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! — John Milton Copy Share Image
Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there. — Ismail Merchant Copy Share Image
Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning. — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy. — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
“...and since, human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we… — Flaubert Gustave Copy Share Image
“The baronet, in his old age, had been cast up by his vices on the shores of melancholy; heavy-eyed, grey-haired, bent, he… — Barry Pain Copy Share Image
“It is very melancholy without you. I love you more all the time and since I did not think there was any… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
All green was anished sae of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue; Sae the green holly with its berries… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Why do all people see melancholy as something bad? For me it is intense time I spend alone with me and my… — Damaris Wieser Copy Share Image
“Maybe all Americans who suffer from melancholy act as if they have gone mad. But I truly thought he might throw himself… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Byelorussian songs, if you've ever heard them are slightly monotonous, even mournful yet they do have a certain melancholy charm and compassion… — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
“I close my eyes and listen to the ocean. I'm thinking about sailing, to England or maybe France. The way the wind… — Hannah Moskowitz Copy Share Image
Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness,… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Melancholy is an intimate aspect of human nature, while depression, like any other illness, creates fear and perplexity. Melancholy can displayed, depression… — Karin Johannisson Copy Share Image
“It was as if all the melancholy I’d ever known, all the nights I sat alone thinking life sucked, had added up… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
To fall for," "to be fallen for"--I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent.… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“That's most interesting. But I was no more a mind-reader then than today. I was weeping for an altogether different reason. When… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) was a profoundly important analysis of human states of mind - a kind of early… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
“What was wrong with you?" "Melancholy. Nothing more or less than that. I have suffered it often. Not because I do not… — Rhiannon Thomas Copy Share Image
“I am the saint at prayer on the terrace like the peaceful beasts that graze down to the sea of Palestine. I… — RIMBAUD Copy Share Image
“I realised I never wanted to leave her side, and I never wanted her to have to struggle to be released from… — R.M. Miller Copy Share Image
“You have no effect on me with your gesture of Hippocrates refusing bric-a-brac from Artaxerxes. I dispense you from quieting me. Anyway,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
All my films have always been released in the autumn, maybe because they're more melancholy to people. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“My melancholy wants to rest in the hiding places and abysses of perfection: that is why I need music.” — Nietzsche Friedrich Copy Share Image
Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia is my vice. Nostalgia is a melancholy, and slightly saccharine, sentiment, like tenderness” — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
