“There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can… — Oliver Goldsmith 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
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
Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic… — Natalie Imbruglia Copy Share Image
“The old summer's-end melancholy nips at my heels. There's no school to go back to; no detail of my life will change… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
“Byelorussian songs, if you've ever heard them are slightly monotonous, even mournful yet they do have a certain melancholy charm and compassion… — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
“Maybe all Americans who suffer from melancholy act as if they have gone mad. But I truly thought he might throw himself… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“They danced slow circles in the sand, Javier singing the words to the Spanish version of the song, the melancholy music putting… — Pamela Clare Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy but an undoubted fact, that, even in the most thriving countries, part of the population annually dies of… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
“He had done nothing on Christmas day, just wandered around outside in the frozen woods. Hard ground, chill winds and bare branches… — R.D. Ronald Copy Share Image
Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Their leaving made me melancholy, though I also felt something like relief when they disappeared into the dark trees. I hadn't needed… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Why do all people see melancholy as something bad? For me it is intense time I spend alone with me and my… — Damaris Wieser Copy Share Image
All green was anished sae of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue; Sae the green holly with its berries… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
There is a sense of melancholy attached to seeing images of yourself from a different era, especially when you see a picture. — Roger Taylor Copy Share Image
At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“It is very melancholy without you. I love you more all the time and since I did not think there was any… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“...and since, human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we… — Flaubert Gustave Copy Share Image
“The baronet, in his old age, had been cast up by his vices on the shores of melancholy; heavy-eyed, grey-haired, bent, he… — Barry Pain Copy Share Image
“Men who read a lot have a more sensitive disposition, added Fowler. [...] I did not know what to say to this.… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Be careful, dear friends, that you do not misrepresent God yourselves. You who murmur; you who say that God deals hardly with… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty,… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us on enquiries concerning the principles whence it arose: Apprehensions spring up with regard to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I've once gotten in trouble with certain gay activists because I'm not gay enough! I am a morose homosexual. I'm melancholy. Gay… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I think people who are unhappy are always proud of being so, and therefore do not like to be told that there… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
America, the Idea of: We yearned for its beer and jazz, its smoke-filled nightclubs, its Edward Hopper bars, the melancholy of rainy… — Michael Bywater Copy Share Image
I think there has to be an underlying sexuality. There has to be a perverseness to the clothes. There is a hidden… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm at a place in my life where I'm really strangely happy, and in awe of how great the… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
![“Men who read a lot have a more sensitive disposition, added Fowler. [...] I did not know what to say to this. Maybe reading is a sort of curse is all I mean, concluded Fowler. Maybe it's better for a man to stay inside his own mind. Amen, I felt like saying, although I do not know why.” quote by Dan Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe3/dan-simmons-968_books_men-who-read-a-lot-have-a-more-sensitive_159615.jpg)
