I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The bar was stuffy and melancholy. It was full of the sadness inherent in all deracinated things.” — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
Melancholy is not one of my emotions. Quite seriously, I don't do melancholy. It's a miserable way to be. — Walter Mischel Copy Share Image
“Mine was the sort of heart that had to overcome melancholy and free itself from many depressing weights.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There's definitely sadness happening in this band. I get melancholy every day about things. — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
For me, comic scores always have to have some melancholy in the background. — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“You must expect from me nothing but the melancholy effusions of a broken Heart which is ever reverting to the Happiness it… — jane austen Copy Share Image
And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
The novel is like a melancholy form. It's about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
“He neither acquits nor condemns, but merely relates, and, just as a dream is more often painful than happy, so a tone… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be… — George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax 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
“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
“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
“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
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
...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
My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew… — Quentin Crisp 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 realised I never wanted to leave her side, and I never wanted her to have to struggle to be released from… — R.M. Miller Copy Share Image
“I am the saint at prayer on the terrace like the peaceful beasts that graze down to the sea of Palestine. I… — RIMBAUD Copy Share Image
“What was wrong with you?" "Melancholy. Nothing more or less than that. I have suffered it often. Not because I do not… — Rhiannon Thomas Copy Share Image
When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and… — William Jacob Holland Copy Share Image
“To keep something, you must take care of it. More, you must understand just what sort of care it requires. You must… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
