...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods, And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt, And night by night… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
“The emptiness imparts a strange melancholy which she could never express...except to think of bare trees under a white winter sky, empty… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Awkwardness is where tension is, and tension is where the story is. It's also where the comedy is, which I'm interested in;… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of… — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share Image
Why has no one written a November rhapsody with plenty of lilt and swing? The poets who are moved at all by… — Mabel Osgood Wright Copy Share Image
I have the soundtrack for 'A Clockwork Orange,' which is kind of cool. I guess I don't really end up buying a… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
Japanese horror films take the business of being frightening seriously. There is no attempt at postmodernism or humour. They are incredibly melancholy,… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It's from being melancholy and having my human down experiences that I learn, that I overcome, that I transform - and these… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
“...her melancholy mood had followed her home. It clung to her like perfume, filling the rooms she visited with the scent of… — Elise K. Ackers Copy Share Image
More than anything, the journal wanted. It wanted more than it could hold, more than words could describe, more than diagrams could… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately I am a completely impractical person, caught up in endless trains of thought. All of us are fantasists, ill-equipped for life,… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me… — Boethius Copy Share Image
It is an unfortunate thing for the Christian to be melancholy. If there is any man in the world that has a… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“He saw her red eyes filled with tears of anger. "Tell me why this rage?" He asked holding her in his arms.… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale,… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The gentle rain which waters my beans and keeps me in the house today is not drear and melancholy, but good for… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“You’re going back?” asked Bod. Things that had been immutable were changing. “You’re really leaving? But. You’re my guardian.” “I was you’re… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
How melancholy a thing is success. Whilst failure inspirits a man, attainment reads the sad prosy lesson that all our glories "Are… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
One nation is to another what one individual is to another; with this melancholy distinction perhaps, that the former with fewer of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
It's a sign of this film's greatness that the enormous sadness that accompanies the final leave-taking of the circus interior is a… — Jonathan Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“I needed a time machine. I needed to run around the past and gather up all the old, unbroken parts of me… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
One ought to avoid all unnecessary worry and exciting thoughts, and to cultivate a firm tranquility of mind. Melancholy reflections will in… — George Hackenschmidt Copy Share Image
“I was hardly worthy of these surroundings. And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped about my body, and… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“The quiet, melancholy music gradually gave shape to the undefined sadness enveloping his heart, as if countless microscopic bits of pollen adhered… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The melancholy comes over me, the dismal misery of not knowing where I am, or perhaps losing any sense of who I… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
I am sometimes accused by my peers of printing my pictures too dark. All I can say is that it goes with… — Don McCullin Copy Share Image
“Cyrano: The leaves--- Roxane: What color---Perfect Venetian red! Look at them fall. Cyrano: Yes---they know how to die. A little way From… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
“Poor little place,' he murmured with a sigh. She heard him. He said the most melancholy things, but she noticed that directly… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
