What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time. — David Guterson Copy Share Image
“Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
“I loved him the way some people are to be loved - from a distance.” — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
There is a melancholy which accompanies all enthusiasm. — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
“What broke your heart so bad That you had to close every door, That you say you have a dark soul And… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
We are earth's children, and life is the same in sap as in blood; all that the earth, our mother, feels and… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it. — Sofia Coppola Copy Share Image
I hardly know so melancholy a reflection as that parents are necessarily the sole directors of the management of children, whether they… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Despite her cough, Rose was in unusually good spirits. That was irritating. If I’m to trade my life for Rose’s, I’d appreciate… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
“All things pass in the end, even the worst melancholy. I opened my dresser and pulled out the lava box that held… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
There are some people who think that they should be always mourning, that they should put a continual constraint upon themselves, and… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
“He really had experienced every tiniest increment of time in the four decades since then, and yet here he was surprised to… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“I find only sadness and melancholy when I wade through the past, even when revisiting good memories. The past is gone; I… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
“Altizer distinguishes between melancholy as a condition marked principally by a sense of guilt, even a delirium of guilt, and the contemporary… — Alina N. Feld Copy Share Image
“I hope you know that when you’re happy, or sad, or joyful, when you’re melancholy on spring days, or rainy nights, or… — James Russell Lingerfelt Copy Share Image
From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
“The Journey One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“What was he doing during the trip? What was he thinking about? As he had during the morning, he watched the trees… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Ah God! to see the branches stir Across the moon at Grantchester! To smell the thrilling-sweet and rotten Unforgettable, unforgotten River-smell, and… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
“The early breeze sighing among the foliage, that waved high over the path, and the hollow dashing of distant waters, he listened… — Ann Radcliffe 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
“A mist is rolling over the fields. Why is a summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?” — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions. — Chantal Kreviazuk Copy Share Image
A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy. — Stephan Jenkins Copy Share Image
...too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy. — Horace Copy Share Image
There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better. — Alain Resnais Copy Share Image
