“My melancholy thoughts are back. But I still love the idea of love.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy? — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears? — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Once, long ago, I heard the mermaids singing, but I do not think they will sing to me now.” — Toby R. Beeny Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
“And that's the bottom layer in old boxes: melancholy, an indefinable sense of loss. You dig around and it comes swirling up… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the heart of our melancholy is that we miss the woman we were meant to be. We miss our authentic selves.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I'm a man who struggles with melancholy and depression, but I am a very productive filmmaker and I work constantly, with no… — Jørgen Leth Copy Share Image
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think people who are unhappy are always proud of being so, and therefore do not like to be told that there… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Their leaving made me melancholy, though I also felt something like relief when they disappeared into the dark trees. I hadn't needed… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Be careful, dear friends, that you do not misrepresent God yourselves. You who murmur; you who say that God deals hardly with… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I thought once how Theocritus had sung Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years, Who each one in a gracious… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“If you tell someone you have depression, they will often say, "Oh, I've been depressed before, too." The difference lies between being… — Northern Adams Copy Share Image
“I see life as a roadside inn where I have to stay until the coach from the abyss pulls up. I don’t… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Alas!’ he writes, ‘I am morbid, And have put a purple colour about my brow. All men seem eating and drinking the… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. In creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
