Joy of living Quote by Alexander Kushner

“Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.”

— Raheel Farooq

“Melancholy people have two reasons for being so: they don’t know or they hope.”

— Albert Camus

“As I see it, people who experience equal amounts of sadness and happiness in their lives must be incredibly blessed. Some people lead a…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness, no greater cure than business.”

— Robert Burton

“The melancholy with which it described an inability to live each day to the full, to take every day for what it really was,…

— Nina George

“The sadness sorrow is to desire death while you have life.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“No one likes to see people in moods of despair they themselves have survived.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Active natures are rarely melancholy. Activity and sadness are incompatible.”

— Anonymous

“And what I thought most about was luxury. I had never realised before that it is more than just having things; it makes the…

— Dodie Smith

“I was a happy melancholy, though — a contradiction in terms, to be sure, but every human understands this paradox, because they have all…

— Jamie S. Rich

“what the melancholy among us sometimes know, though may not be able to articulate, is that coming to the end of our resources may…

— Sharon McMahon Moffitt

“We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed the time…

— Erich Fromm