Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Perhaps she would have liked to confide all these things to someone. But how tell an undefinable uneasiness, variable as the clouds,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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
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
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
'American Graffiti' stayed in my mind, but I don't think to this day I've done a film that captured that same level… — Jean Reno Copy Share Image
“And this the world calls frenzy; but the wise Have a far deeper madness, and the glance Of melancholy is a fearful… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
“The truth was that nature had endowed them with a larger share of brains than was common in their circle, and had… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
“Whenever she was asked to play something, this piece was the one she most often chose. “Le mal du pays.” The groundless… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
As the romance of manned space exploration has waned, the drive today is to find our living, thinking counterparts in the universe.… — Charles Krauthammer 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
“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
“She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
Strike the concertina's melancholy string! Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing! Let the piano's martial blast Rouse the Echoes of the… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Let’s call my mood melancholy; let’s call it remembrance. Or maybe let’s call it longing. Yes, let’s call it longing instead.” — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
Be cheerful in all that you do. Live joyfully. Live happily. Live enthusiastically, knowing that God does not dwell in gloom and… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet… — John Fletcher Copy Share Image
“Eventually I fall asleep, savoring the melancholy pleasures of victory. I wake with a start to a muffled sound: the wolves could… — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We're all connected to melancholy. It's an experience that moves us. And it defines us, the sadness we face it shapes our… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity. — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
Have we not huddled in bunkers, while some premonition of tomorrow hung in the air and a comrade started singing? Oh, it… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
When the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, And hides the… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The pain, is the only connection she has with him now. So she will hold onto it, keep the agony hidden inside… — Onur Taşkıranşkıran Copy Share Image
Melancholy is a state that I very much enjoy being in, actually. It's not the same as feeling sad. It's a more… — Johann Johannsson 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
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
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
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
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
When I write, I tend toward melancholy, and the few times that I've tried pure joy in music, it doesn't really work… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
