My sweet spot, the stuff I like the most, is hopeful melancholy. Optimistic melancholy. — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
“The room didn't look haunted or eerie now;it was only melancholy in it's faded grandeur.” — Elizabeth Peters Copy Share Image
“Melancholy is a private thing. It's not something you just show to everybody.” — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
“I cried for a little while, taking a kind of melancholy delight in my own tears, and then I fell asleep.” — Barbara Cohen Copy Share Image
“You'll still make a great king." "Of course I will," he scoffed. "I'm melancholy, not daft.” — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“Like a moth is drawn to the light we are drawn to melancholy, we succumb to it.” — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Hip-hop, pop, dance - the common point is melancholy. That's international, and I like this word because it's not only about sadness… — Stromae Copy Share Image
When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
“There's this charge in the air, and it takes me awhile to get it at first, to really put it all together.… — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
“The sick constriction of the heart was undeniable; there was a melancholy truth in the fact that it was suffering which made… — Alfred Hayes Copy Share Image
Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you… — Del Shannon Copy Share Image
The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling — a somehow melancholy feeling. He was outside; he passed on… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I wasn't born in New York and I may never live there again, and just thinking about it makes me melancholy, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can remember, with unsteady feet, Tottering from room to room, and finding pleasure In flowers, and toys, and sweetmeats, things which… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
The frequency of disastrous consequences in compound fracture, contrasted with the complete immunity from danger to life or limb in simple fracture,… — Joseph Lister Copy Share Image
We went to the door and I let Asha in. I expected an uberawkward moment when he and Vayl met. But Asha… — Jennifer Rardin Copy Share Image
“it’s that particular connection between melancholy and humor that Klibansky, Panofsky, and Saxl examined in Saturn and Melancholy (1964). Just as melancholy… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this… — Florence Welch 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
My curiosity, alas, is not the kind that can be satisfied by objective knowledge. Plato said that opinion is worthless and that… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Brother,you who have the light, tell me mine. I am like a blind man. I go without direction and fumble along. I… — Rubén Darío 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
“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
“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
“To keep something, you must take care of it. More, you must understand just what sort of care it requires. You must… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know. — Homer Copy Share Image
“My father and grandfather were noises now there are just silent and disappointed.” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something. — John Keble Copy Share Image
Love is a gate that we all must face, for love is our fate. Even the darkness is something we have to… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end. — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
I liked 'The Darjeeling Limited' very much. There was a melancholy about that film that I liked. — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's. — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
