“The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.” — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy. — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
No grief so soft, no pain so sweet, as love's delicious melancholy. — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“A hand-rolled cigarette to smoke, Another one bought from the store. If he lights one, his mind's lit up Another one burns… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“The wind I hear it sighing, with autumn's saddest sound; withered leaves all thick are lying, as spring-flowers on the ground. This… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good… — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
“I’ve always been a fan of the melancholy, like Morrissey. I grew up playing classical nocturnes like Chopin and Debussy on piano,… — Blake Lewis Copy Share Image
I have only one thing to say to the melancholy man: 'Look into the distance.' ... When you look at the stars… — Emile Chartier Copy Share Image
Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Men who read a lot have a more sensitive disposition, added Fowler. [...] I did not know what to say to this.… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Whenever she was asked to play something, this piece was the one she most often chose. “Le mal du pays.” The groundless… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“He had done nothing on Christmas day, just wandered around outside in the frozen woods. Hard ground, chill winds and bare branches… — R.D. Ronald Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy but an undoubted fact, that, even in the most thriving countries, part of the population annually dies of… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
“They danced slow circles in the sand, Javier singing the words to the Spanish version of the song, the melancholy music putting… — Pamela Clare Copy Share Image
There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“Melancholy (1) An excess of black bile, anatomized by Robert Burton, embraced by the swooning Romantics as evidence of their fine sensibilities,… — Michael Bywater Copy Share Image
There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“After much effort to live up to a glorious standard there came fatigue, wan hope, and boredom. I experienced extreme boredom. I… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“The Last Leaf I saw him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Well, I'm drawn to stuff that is darker. I will probably do a version of Jane Austen at some point because her… — Robert Sikoryak Copy Share Image
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