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It's from being melancholy and having my human down experiences that I learn, that I overcome, that I transform - and these realizations I put… — Jason Mraz
Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption . — Timothy Keller
It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale, delicate shadow rises… — Robert Musil
Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo
The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity,… — Charles Dickens
I wasn't born in New York and I may never live there again, and just thinking about it makes me melancholy, but I was changed… — Luc Sante
There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy. — Michel de Montaigne
If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill… — John Cheever
If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are… — Leigh Hunt
Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off. — Richard Le Gallienne
When the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, And hides the green hill in… — John Keats
Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize… — Bruce Catton
My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am… — Anne Stevenson
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind… — Gunter Grass
Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it. — James Boswell
Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end. — Karel Capek
He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their… — Pierre Corneille
There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay… — Josh Radnor
Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to me… — Mike White
I'm so involved in melancholy. — Isaac Mizrahi
The gentle rain which waters my beans and keeps me in the house today is not drear and melancholy, but good for me too. Though… — Henry David Thoreau
When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something. — John Keble
I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned. — Jamaica Kincaid

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