Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically. — Lee Radziwill Copy Share Image
That sadness of something that was once so sweet, sunny and quixotic and then it turns to cold, bitterness and silence. — Sophie Lianne Copy Share Image
If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
“Cut my life into pizzas. this is my plastic fork. oven baking, no breathing, dont give a fuck if its carbs that… — Catherine Spann Copy Share Image
There's a whole kind of melancholy that you can only attain with reverb. That's an example of a technology introducing a whole… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche. — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
“I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There's lots of sides. The CD doesn't really create a mood. It creates more of a journey. It starts out with a… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
“These scenes,’ said Valancourt, at length, ‘soften the heart, like the notes of sweet music, and inspire that delicious melancholy which no… — Anne Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I was always either so unreasonably and pointlessly happy that no one place could seem to contain me, or so melancholy, so… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“They laughed, but I was melancholy. The remnants of Rome always make me sad, simply because they are proof that we slide… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomalyl) that fitful strain… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“No one was irritable; we have never known anyone to remain unhappy while digesting a good meal. We enjoy lingering in a… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Indeed, grief is not the clear melancholy the young believe it. It is like a siege in a tropical city. The skin… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“He had been there long enough to have treated most of their fathers and mothers, many grandfathers and grandmothers too, and recognise… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
“Or maybe, just maybe, he'd got close enough to sense the melancholy that sits at the core of her, usually hidden deep… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
The tolling of yon dismal bell and the loud but solemn discharge of artillery hath announced to the nation the melancholy tidings… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn’t point… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“The fakirs always throng the sea-shore To find meaning in the chaos And then they too become melancholy Feeling nothing but their… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Despite her ability to enjoy most of their days, sometimes her despair was so great that, in a melancholy moment when she'd… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.” — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
She was not crying Which surprised me very much But I understand now That she had found places For her melancholy That… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Ozzie Boone...insists that I keep the tone light in these biographical manuscripts. He believes that pessimism is strictly for people who are… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of… — William James Copy Share Image
For me, the work is an absolute necessity. I cannot put it off; I don't care for anything else; that is to… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“If you close your eyes when you sing in Latin, and if you stand right at the back so you can keep… — Carol Rifka Brunt Copy Share Image
“The Wanderer What is she like? I was told— she is a melancholy soul. She is like the sun to the night;… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
“There can be few places more conducive to the quiet, solitary contemplation of melancholy thoughts than a window-seat; and if beyond the… — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Each picture with its particular environment and unique personal relationships is a world unto itself - separate and distinct. Picture makers lead… — John Huston Copy Share Image
Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Standing here, in this quiet house where I can hear the birds chirping out back, I think I’m kind of getting the… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
She had one of those charming faces which, according to the angle from which you see them, look either melancholy or impertinent.… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“I am metaphysical being, mystical and emotional, skeptical and cynical, happy and boisterous, loud and bawdy, quiet and melancholy, tender and cruel,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
