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429 Melancholy quotes by 309 unique authors

Dance music-as I keep saying, you can dance to a windshield wiper... a windshield wiper that's fairly steady gives you a beat and all you… — Artie Shaw
But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If you… — William Shakespeare
Diabetes is caused by melancholy. — Thomas Willis
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to… — Gunter Grass
Dance with all the might of your body, and all the fire of your soul, in order that you may shake all melancholy out of… — Lola Montez
Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and how… — Holbrook Jackson
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at… — William Shakespeare
I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying of the year… — Unknown Author
Let me be boiled to death with melancholy. — William Shakespeare
That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to… — Samuel Johnson
Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best] — Christian Nestell Bovee
[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought… — Arthur Helps
The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we form… — Baruch Spinoza
Counting our blessings can transform melancholy into cheerful mass; laughter and joy are expressions of praise and thanksgiving for life's glories. When looking at the… — John Templeton
Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment. — Jean Rhys
It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes just as much… — Paul Brunton
We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations. — Joseph Howe
Munch writes poetry with color. He has taught himself to see the full potential of color in art His use of color is above all… — SigbjÃ¸rn Obstfelder
Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. — Francis Beaumont
We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the… — Octavio Paz
It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it drives him on… — Baron d'Holbach
What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time. — David Guterson
Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters. — John Ford
Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if… — Samuel Rogers

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