Delight Quote by Herman Melville

The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance.

— Robert Blair

Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only…

— John Fletcher

Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.

— Emily Bronte

...that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseperable from the perfection of the beautiful.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness.”

— William Makepeace Thackeray

No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.

— Dante Alighieri

“Sorrow isn't the absence of passion. Sorrow is the darkest, most intense form of passion hidden in the recesses of the soul.”

— Andrea Randall

Naught so sweet as melancholy.

— Robert A. Burton

There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.

— Michel de Montaigne

“When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. If we…

— Maurice Maeterlinck