Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
I think melancholy is kind of a misunderstood emotion. I don't think it's necessarily an unpleasant or bad emotion. — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime!… — Leonardo Sciascia Copy Share Image
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy.… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A melancholy air can never be the right thing; what you want is a bored air. If you are melancholy, it must… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind.… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
[My muse] likes to inhabit tea leaves, sunlight filtered through bamboo, melancholy clouds over the Devon coastline, a weedy railroad crossing in… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Only a fool will deny that an abundance of flowers can quicken a woman's blood, and that continuing sun can burn years… — Joe Ashby Porter Copy Share Image
There's constantly this melancholy about British hip-hop. People are always waiting for it to explode like American hip-hop, but it might just… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'd like to combine melancholy and sunshine... There's a sadness in Provence which no one has expressed... I'd like to put reason… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
“The men we met walked past, slow, unsmiling, with downcast eyes, as if the melancholy of a over-burdened earth had weighted their… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
“Melancholy is a term I learned about in my reading and I’ve discovered it can be wildly addictive to nurse one’s own… — Gabe Habash Copy Share Image
“Men do not die on mornings like this: whatever happens then happens in their name, like the lives of obscure saints, who… — Michael Hogan Copy Share Image
“We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves… — Richard Henry Dana, Jr Copy Share Image
“That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we… — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
“Once in a while, groundless melancholy would darken my face, a dull and incomprehensible nostalgia for times never experienced would invade me.” — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together… — Darcey Steinke Copy Share Image
“She stayed there, in her ball dress, without strength to go to bed, overwhelmed, on a chair, without a fire, without a… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Sinatra's melancholy was the melancholy of mass (old) media technology - the 'extimacy' of the records facilitated by the phonograph and the… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
In everybody's life, there is love, there is sorrow, there is melancholy. And there might be danger as well. — Gautham Menon Copy Share Image
You can’t take back texts. If you come off all moody and melancholy in a text, it just sits there in your… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Melancholy persons are foreigners in their mother tongue. The dead language they speak foreshadows their suicide.” — David Kyuman Kim Copy Share Image
I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
“He neither acquits nor condemns, but merely relates, and, just as a dream is more often painful than happy, so a tone… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
![“[My muse] likes to inhabit tea leaves, sunlight filtered through bamboo, melancholy clouds over the Devon coastline, a weedy railroad crossing in the Southern States, bubblegum pop from the sixties, torch songs from the forties, undersea caves where B-movie octopi grapple with men in loincloths…” quote by Quentin S. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/476/quentin-s-crisp-4149_anime_my-muse-likes-to-inhabit-tea-leaves-sunl_1857221.jpg)
