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And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy. — Samuel Rogers
I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow. — Vincent Van Gogh
All green was anished sae of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue; Sae the green holly with its berries red, And the… — George Crabbe
Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy. — Arthur Helps
I'd like to combine melancholy and sunshine... There's a sadness in Provence which no one has expressed... I'd like to put reason in the grass… — Paul Cezanne
Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly?… — Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic. I don't mean… — Keren Ann
There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. There is… — Theodore Roosevelt
By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls. By each… — Edgar Allan Poe
Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate you drink your… — A. E. Housman
Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape from society but also was an ideal… — Roderick Nash
But my favorite part in my body are my dark circles. They define me. They reveal my melancholy. — Lea Seydoux
We are earth's children, and life is the same in sap as in blood; all that the earth, our mother, feels and expresses to the… — Alphonse de Lamartine
As the romance of manned space exploration has waned, the drive today is to find our living, thinking counterparts in the universe. For all the… — Charles Krauthammer
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to… — Anatole France
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt… — Oliver Goldsmith
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. — Oliver Goldsmith
I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I… — Dave Grohl
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy. — Mason Cooley
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. — Charles Dickens
The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from… — Rita Dove
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. — Francois Fenelon
I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can… — Julia Ward Howe
Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. — David Hume

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