There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“. . . Like ashes of gold in a cinnamon-flame, My youthful desires have been burnt with the years– And tonight in… — Haoran Meng Copy Share Image
I don't know how many lions and leopards I've shot. I've shot two elephants, which was enough - never again. It's a… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I, too, am going to go away soon,' she says, 'I am weary and weary of my weariness. Everything is beginning to… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“The melancholy with which it described an inability to live each day to the full, to take every day for what it… — Nina George Copy Share Image
When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
“How indescribable the scent of autumn flowers was– barely a scent at all, really; just a faint, strange smell, pleasant but sad.… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“Well, here I am, just come home; a fellow gone to the bad; though I had the best intentions in the world… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
We went to the door and I let Asha in. I expected an uberawkward moment when he and Vayl met. But Asha… — Jennifer Rardin Copy Share Image
Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
“This is where Mother and I differ greatly. Her advice in the face of melancholy is: 'Think about all the suffering in… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business.… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
The days may not be so bright and balmy...yet the quiet and melancholy that linger around them is fraught with glory. Over… — Northern Advocate Copy Share Image
Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety; old crotchets and most sweet closes.… — John Marston Copy Share Image
Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride;… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
What Simone Weil said politics has meant all along, which means that you fight for 11 percent, 12 percent, 13 percent, that… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe… — Duke of Wellington Copy Share Image
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy,… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“Of what are you thinking now?" she asked. "I am thinking of myself." "That's just what I am doing." "Are you also… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“I'll always be your friend, Talltail. But I'm a kittypet and you're a warrior. You'll always be a Warrior.” — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they… — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair Science frown'd not on… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair; And they heard… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I was a very devout boy and one day I heard the music of an Egyptian Koran singer in the mosque. The… — Shahin Najafi Copy Share Image
He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
I always have a decompression period at the end of a film. Sometimes it joyful, because you're just happy to be done.… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
“The anaesthetic effect of habit being destroyed, I would begin to think - and to feel - such melancholy things.” — Marcel Proust 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
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
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
