Books Quote by Hunt Hawkins

“created that melancholy of mind which accorded but too well with the religious gloom surrounding him.”

— Matthew Lewis

“The melancholy with which it described an inability to live each day to the full, to take every day for what it really was,…

— Nina George

“This is not written for the young or the light of heart, not for the tranquil species of men whose souls are content with…

— B.E. Scully

“His temperament was deeply nostalgic, not for for his own past, but for past ages; he was cynical of the present, fearful of the…

— Eleanor Catton

Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

— Immanuel Kant

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness

— Nicolas Chamfort

“In a novel, all his life's anxieties, his mixture of strength and weakness, his potential for hysteria - all would have been swirled away…

— Julian Barnes

The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.

— Joseph Conrad

“For a few minutes the anxiety that tormented him had vanished, leaving his mind as serene as the beauty he looked at. Very lovely,…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“He neither acquits nor condemns, but merely relates, and, just as a dream is more often painful than happy, so a tone of melancholy…

— August Strindberg

“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

“The melancholy comes over me, the dismal misery of not knowing where I am, or perhaps losing any sense of who I am, as…

— Simon Armitage