“whose melancholy could be cured only by the spectacle of death, and who had a passion for red blood, as other men… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't be The familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skin Your head's under… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
I think melancholy is part of the natural condition, you know. Anyway, I think it's the artist's function to have their melancholy… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are the true sources of superstition. Hope, pride, presumption, a warm indignation, together with ignorance, are… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been… — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
“For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, and the other… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
“There I was, Talking to you in the language of sunsets. I wanted to hold that luminous wind in my hair, to… — Monica Laura Rapeanu Copy Share Image
I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“He worries a lot and often suffers from feelings of self-doubt. He has a natural attraction to the melancholy side of life.… — Sandra Nichols Copy Share Image
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
It is a sad and very melancholy scene, which must strike everyone who knows and feels that we also have to pass… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I find nothing but… — Molière Copy Share Image
“He presses two fingers against each eye and attempts to account for this crippling melancholy, but is having trouble with rational thought.… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“From the house I built for you In my heart A few dreams ago Only one shattered window remains In which the… — Monica Laura Rapeanu Copy Share Image
“I can't help always falling upon it, and cry out with particular loudness and wailing, and become especially melancholy, when I see… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“I felt lonely, and in full possession of my loneliness. It was the first time I had owned anything of value.” — Ben Greenman Copy Share Image
I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Kevin Kline gives a master class in acting. He finds every nuance of mirth and melancholy in this wonder of a role… — Peter Travers Copy Share Image
I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known… — James Otis Copy Share Image
This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
...that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseperable from the perfection of the beautiful. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“At the end of the day, we are with ourselves — and this can either be the most beautiful thing or the… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
“He could now inhabit the world of words, with, at the back of his melancholy, a solace he had not known before” — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
[Prozac] didn't seem to have any effect whatsoever on my melancholy, my dark vision, and everything else that I'd taken it for. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, especially in the context of an acoustic song, I'm motivated to write by some amount of melancholy. — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
“For he used to say...that knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
For many years I was the youngest among my mathematical friends. It makes me melancholy to realize that I now have become… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
“Even when it seems that there is no one else, always remember there's one person who never ceased to love you -… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I went to bed feeling melancholy, wishing I could have poured out all my fears and insecurities to my mom. Wasn’t that… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Ah, there are moments for us here, when, seeing Life's inequalities, and woe, and care, The burdens laid upon our mortal being… — Phoebe Cary Copy Share Image
“Often it feels like I am breathing today only because a few years back I had no idea which nerve to cut...” — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors. — John Milton Copy Share Image