Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Now that the holiday blues are over, let's resume our everyday melancholy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is. — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
“The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Melancholy people have two reasons for being so: they don’t know or they hope.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But fish not with this melancholy bait For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Ursula is something I will never feel again: she is Melancholy, cut into the soul and flesh.” — Luther Blissett Copy Share Image
When people hit on feeling a certain melancholy or elation, it's a really exciting moment. I think making that connection is the… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
What e'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact.… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
“--perhaps monsters were misunderstood gods; deities with plans too grand for humans; a phantom of evil that drank from the roots of… — Roshani Chokshi Copy Share Image
“What if you wake up one fine morning only to realize that the life you have been living since the last few… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
Its tall chimneys throw up black smoke, impregnating everything with soot, and the miners' faces as they traveled the streets were also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you love a city and have explored it frequently on foot, your body, not to mention your soul, gets to know… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“It is old...But, do you know, when you have once grasped it clearly, everything becomes so insignificant! I consider my ideas very… — Liev Tolstoi Copy Share Image
“Then again, maybe knowing that life will only get duller, sadder, less hopeful afterward would inject melancholy into that moment. You’d miss… — Anita Bartholomew Copy Share Image
Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
Purcell is a composer who had a formative influence on British music - even The Who now cite him as an influence.… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
“To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer… — William Cullen Bryant Copy Share Image
“-but deep down he knew that change was only the interval of death between two forms of life, destruction necessary to make… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are abated; the great… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“My prayers, my tears, my wishes, fears, and lamentations, were witnessed by myself and heaven alone. When we are harassed by sorrows… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“...she had gone too far into the unhappiness of the world to start all over again.” — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
A Scanner Darkly' is one of Dick's bleakest novels, and almost certainly his saddest. — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“She had a certain guarded melancholy, no doubt, but no despair" (44).” — Gary A. Haugen Copy Share Image
Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
