Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“Melancholy isn’t a sign of the book’s end; it is its inspiration. Melancholy is reading’s muse.” — Andrew Piper Copy Share Image
Melancholy, she never loved me, see she only loved to be loved, but it's empty inside of her heart. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
“Kad bi se svi ljudi ugušili u pismima umrlih roditelja i predaka, nikad ne bismo uspeli da živimo sopstvene živote.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times,… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Some days you'll feel sad without knowing why. Like you lost something very precious but forgot what it was, or like you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This was a characteroloical prelude, but it wasn’t chemical or somatic. It was the anatomy of melancholy, not the anatomy of his… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“For the philosopher is right who says that nothing is thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Dance music-as I keep saying, you can dance to a windshield wiper... a windshield wiper that's fairly steady gives you a beat… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
“We [of Thelema] are whole-hearted extroverts; the penalty of restricting one self is anything from neurosis to down right lunacy; in particular,… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
There's a book that's critical to understanding anxiety, a 17th-century book, 'The Anatomy of Melancholy,' by Robert Burton. I wanted to write… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
As the romance of manned space exploration has waned, the drive today is to find our living, thinking counterparts in the universe.… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
'American Graffiti' stayed in my mind, but I don't think to this day I've done a film that captured that same level… — Jean Reno Copy Share Image
Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride;… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety; old crotchets and most sweet closes.… — John Marston Copy Share Image
The days may not be so bright and balmy...yet the quiet and melancholy that linger around them is fraught with glory. Over… — Northern Advocate Copy Share Image
How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business.… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
“There's a lot of beauty to be found in sadness and melancholia. One of the things that you find time and time… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
“night has enveloped, to give me some relief now invisible are walls of separation, and thy grief where blood quenches the thirst… — Mirza Sharafat Hussain Beigh Copy Share Image
“To muse for long unwearied hours with my attention riveted to some frivolous device upon the margin, or in the typography of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
And what does the rain say at night in a small town, what does the rain have to say? Who walks beneath… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“You know the feeling when your Life gets a little bleak, not because of anything lacking but perhaps because of the overwhelming… — Debatrayee Banerjee Copy Share Image
“She had thought, instinctively, that Victoria had a remarkably beautiful face. The face showed an alert awareness of life: her lips- full,… — Kunal Sen Copy Share Image
“I am speaking of the evenings when the sun sets early, of the fathers under the streetlamps in the back streets returning… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image