And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist. — William Trevor Copy Share Image
“There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness, no greater cure than business.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
You'll find Swedes - maybe not as much as the Finns - thriving in melancholy. — Johan Renck Copy Share Image
I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't. — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity. — William Baziotes 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
“Eventually I fall asleep, savoring the melancholy pleasures of victory. I wake with a start to a muffled sound: the wolves could… — Shan Sa 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
“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
Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch. — Thomas Paine 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
“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
[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
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
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 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
“What if you are just destined to get hurt, to be helplessly stuck in a point of time you no longer want… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
Your melancholy. Or depression. Along with nine-tenths of the afflictions I've studied, diagnosed, attempted to treat. Call them whatever you like, but… — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
The fact is, that of all God's gifts to the sight of man, color, is the holiest, the most divine, the most… — Thomas Starr King Copy Share Image
“creeping fear of madness often accompanies depression. Sufferers wonder if their black moods will ever lift, or if their feelings of alienation… — Joshua Wolf Shenk 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
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
“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
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
We will enjoy ourselves with the forms that are given us: a human face, a hand, the breast of a woman or… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
These pages reproduce me very imperfectly, and there are many things in me of which I find no trace in them.I suppose… — Henri-Frédéric Amiel Copy Share Image
Congratulations," he said, his voice dry. "You finally managed to find a woman as tragically noble as yourself. I didn't think one… — Ilona Andrews 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
“There's a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night's.” — Ed Gorman Copy Share Image
The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image