“created that melancholy of mind which accorded but too well with the religious gloom surrounding him.” — Matthew Lewis Copy Share Image
“Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.” — Arthur Wellesley Wellington Copy Share Image
“All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy” — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
“Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy.” — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood. — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does. — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
“Goth was sort of the melancholy cousin of punk that says: there's a lot of evil in this world, there's a lot… — Aurelio Voltaire Hernández Copy Share Image
That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
“The beauty of melancholy cannot be attained by looking. You must embrace the terror it breeds. Then you will be pleased.” — S.E. Lindberg Copy Share Image
“He’s quite as nervously broken down as I am, but it manifests itself in different ways. His inclination is toward megalomania and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“She was moved to a profound but pleasurable melancholy by the evidence that human life is brief and long survived by the… — Helen Hooven Santmyer Copy Share Image
You can’t take back texts. If you come off all moody and melancholy in a text, it just sits there in your… — Rainbow Rowell 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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“What is it that wells up so suddenly and menacingly under my heart, swallowing the soft air of melancholy? Are you pleased… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been granted the secret of motion, his… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
Polaroid material has the most beautiful quality - the colors on one side, but then the magic moment in witnessing the image… — Stefanie Schneider Copy Share Image
In American commercials in the past year or two, I don't know, the singers all sound like they're whining and the music's… — Greg Saunier Copy Share Image
“The eye turned to the fire gave back no light and he closed it with his thumb and sat by her and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Oh, anywhere, driver, anywhere - it doesn't matter. Just keep driving. It's better here in this taxi than it was walking. It's… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy consideration that there should be several among us so hardened and deluded as to think an oath a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
