Haiti is the best cure against melancholy; it is also the most creative place for me to be. My productivity has increased… — Jørgen Leth Copy Share Image
I wanted to work with Barry [ Jenkins]. I am a big fan of his from Medicine for Melancholy years ago. Tarrell… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
“There was this constant urge in me to tear my insides apart, I didn't know why. By the time I made my… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“what the melancholy among us sometimes know, though may not be able to articulate, is that coming to the end of our… — Sharon McMahon Moffitt Copy Share Image
“On a certain day in the blue-moon month of September Beneath a young plum tree, quietly I held her there, my quiet,… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“What shall I do, today? Visit the pub? Sit down in a garden with a book? A bird flies past. Where is… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
“It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Life is like a game of Bloons Tower Defence-you've got to know when you're going to lose, you've got to stop fighting… — Maylinrose Copy Share Image
My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
I think I'm someone who is really prone to melancholy, and the super heavy, thick shows kind of spiral me out into… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart's… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
No one would ever cast me as an aristocrat. I think the big thing about being an Irish artist is access to… — Brian Dennehy Copy Share Image
Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Yet I experienced sometimes that the most sweet and tender, the most innocent and encouraging society may be found in any naturalobject,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I felt less unhappy than usual because her melancholy expression, the way the vivid colour of her dress almost cut her off… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me;… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions,… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost… — George Will Copy Share Image
One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me.… — Mati Unt Copy Share Image
Munch writes poetry with color. He has taught himself to see the full potential of color in art His use of color… — Sigbjørn Obstfelder Copy Share Image
“Somehow this wasn't the same as melancholy. It was something else, about how melancholy and nostalgia weren't relevant in the slightest. Things… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
There's constantly this melancholy about British hip-hop. People are always waiting for it to explode like American hip-hop, but it might just… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Only a fool will deny that an abundance of flowers can quicken a woman's blood, and that continuing sun can burn years… — Joe Ashby Porter Copy Share Image
How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind.… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
[My muse] likes to inhabit tea leaves, sunlight filtered through bamboo, melancholy clouds over the Devon coastline, a weedy railroad crossing in… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A melancholy air can never be the right thing; what you want is a bored air. If you are melancholy, it must… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Tis going, I own, like the Knight of the Woeful Countenance, in quest of melancholy adventures--but I know not how it is,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Bruges had the air of a ghost town. The high towers, the trees along the canals withdrew, absorbed by the same muslin:… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I'm afraid they're in love," he said, concerned. "They don't want to leave you." He lifted one hand from her waist to… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“If you haven't heard him...man, it's like he boiled down down all the melancholy in the world, all the bruises and all… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
![“I wanted to work with Barry [ Jenkins]. I am a big fan of his from Medicine for Melancholy years ago. Tarrell [Alvin McCraney] is my favorite playwright. I will do anything he asks. The characters were so clearly drawn and three dimensional. It was an easy thing to say yes to.” quote by Andre Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6c/andre-holland-10514_asks_i-wanted-to-work-with-barry-jenkins-i-am_1535686.jpg)
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