Compassion Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I felt melancholy, I felt joy, I felt dread, I felt a sadness so deep it cannot be described in words. I felt emotions…

— Charles Yu

“Having reshaped my words with an intensity of feeling I had not known before, I could not understand why others were not overcome with…

— Norman Mailer

“My thoughts about human happiness, for some peculiar reason, had always been tinged with a certain sadness.”

— Anton Chekhov

“He explained what he saw in her eyes, which was not sadness or disappointment but understanding. Sympathy, he said, and wit. At some level…

— Ward Just

“The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing emotional pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of…

— David Foster Wallace

“Melancholy isn’t always a disorder that needs to be cured. It can be a species of intelligent grief which arises when we come face-to-face…

— Alain de Botton

“I wondered how this misery would end. I was full of fear. I was afraid to tell others what I felt lest they would…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“Somehow this wasn't the same as melancholy. It was something else, about how melancholy and nostalgia weren't relevant in the slightest. Things just happened.…

— Ali Smith

“I took comfort in doing without because I knew it was all for the greater good. We all made great sacrifices, none more so…

— Megan McCafferty

“Tragedy, sadness, loneliness and despair taught me that life is really a beautiful thing; if it wasn't I wouldn't be able to recognize that…

— Greg Evans

I like to express true emotions under the cover of melancholy: It includes fulfilment and pain, which describes human existence.

— Volker Bertelmann

“There is a melancholy that stems from greatness of mind.”

— Anonymous