“I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the top of the beer can.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln was a melancholy man, so he had a dark side that appeals to horror fans. — Bill Oberst Jr Copy Share Image
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy. — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Now that the holiday blues are over, let's resume our everyday melancholy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves… — Richard Henry Dana, Jr Copy Share Image
“We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Men do not die on mornings like this: whatever happens then happens in their name, like the lives of obscure saints, who… — Michael Hogan Copy Share Image
“Melancholy is a term I learned about in my reading and I’ve discovered it can be wildly addictive to nurse one’s own… — Gabe Habash Copy Share Image
“Once in a while, groundless melancholy would darken my face, a dull and incomprehensible nostalgia for times never experienced would invade me.” — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“He presses two fingers against each eye and attempts to account for this crippling melancholy, but is having trouble with rational thought.… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I find nothing but… — Molière Copy Share Image
“You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I was always either so unreasonably and pointlessly happy that no one place could seem to contain me, or so melancholy, so… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“These scenes,’ said Valancourt, at length, ‘soften the heart, like the notes of sweet music, and inspire that delicious melancholy which no… — Anne Radcliffe Copy Share Image
There's lots of sides. The CD doesn't really create a mood. It creates more of a journey. It starts out with a… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of… — William James Copy Share Image
“Now, though, there was a second part, an artifact of his recent illness, as if his melancholy had, in a universe adjacent… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
There isn't much to say about my childhood. I remember explosions of intense happiness, followed shortly afterwards by profound melancholy that always… — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
I am no longer a divine biped. I am no longer the freest German after Goethe, as Ruge named me in healthier… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“creeping fear of madness often accompanies depression. Sufferers wonder if their black moods will ever lift, or if their feelings of alienation… — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
“-but deep down he knew that change was only the interval of death between two forms of life, destruction necessary to make… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
We will enjoy ourselves with the forms that are given us: a human face, a hand, the breast of a woman or… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
