“How I used to love the dark, sad evenings of late autumn and winter, how eagerly I imbibed their moods of loneliness… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I think most people get hit by the music first and you can be singing along and realize a song has this… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
I read a lot - surveys of vernacular music. A lot of it is the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music,… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
“Out of a fired ship, which by no way But drowning could be rescued from the flame, Some men leap'd forth, and… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A happy clown inside spat out a pig-in-a-blanket and yelled at the cute waitress holding the tray. … I had to throw… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally exposed to danger whether the government have too much power or too… — James Madison Copy Share Image
These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When I was really sad, I would be like a little kid wiggling a loose tooth or touching a sore spot -… — Claire Dederer Copy Share Image
All our anxieties relate to time. The major problems of psychiatry revolve around an analysis of the despair, pessimism, melancholy, and complexes… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“A great melancholy was hanging in the air, giving their love a more languid, more tender feeling. It was like the love… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm 'i th' bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pinned in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There's a certain darkness to Slipknot, but at the same time, there's a very strong dose of positivity. Stone Sour is the… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“So few things we need to know. And the old wisdoms shudder in us and grow slack. Like renunciation. Like the melancholy… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk,… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages… Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
There is a general place in your brain, I think, reserved for melancholy of relationships past. It grows and prospers as life… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
I shall never forget Juliek. How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Even today,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Concha would cry when she found out I was dead, she should have no taste for life for months afterward. But I… — Jean Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The whole life of Demosthenes... leaves the impression of a melancholy state of things, and of the brazen insolence of wickedness. A… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I do have the ability to explore life and to be over the moon at the smallest thing - a few pints… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances,… — William James Copy Share Image
Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“Rain is a lullaby heard through a thick, isolating blanket of clouds. It is the tinkling harp of water droplets; a moist… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“And Elinor, in quitting Norland and Edward, cried not as I did. Even now her self-command is invariable. When is she dejected… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I only wanted absolute quiet to think out why I had developed a sad attitude toward sadness, a melancholy attitude toward melancholy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
They say that the Dead die not, but remain Near to the rich heirs of their grief and mirth. I think they… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
“But this was the thought of a depressive. An aspiring depressive, at the time. That was the odd thing about Leonard’s disease,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
You know that melancholy feeling when you watch the end of a movie and you're crying - but also there is hope?… — Amber Mark Copy Share Image
“Melancholy isn’t always a disorder that needs to be cured. It can be a species of intelligent grief which arises when we… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The hardest part for us was watching them harvest our Shamouti oranges.Those were our favourites, thick skinned, seedless and juicy.When the wind… — Michelle Cohen Corasanti Copy Share Image
The shimmering, lucid tones and silver melancholy of I'll Be Right There give readers a South Korea peopled with citizens fighting for… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
“Where is the happiness, the sunshine, where are those thick skittles of wood which crashed and bounced so nicely, where is my… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image