African-american-authors Quote by Jabari Asim

“There is, following an ample meal, a sort of pause in time, filled with a gentle slackening of thought and energy, when to sit…

— Marcel Proust

“I had a deep and abiding love for the idea that this life is not something that we are forced to endure but rather…

— Paul Harding

“Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.”

— Raheel Farooq

“Some felt that perhaps in his past lay a tragedy with which he had never been able to make his peace, that the only…

— Dean Koontz

“A desire of desires: the melancholy.”

— Anonymous

“There is nothing like employment, active, indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy, and her occupations were hopeful.”

— Jane Austen

“Only those who have not paid a high price for the gentle joy of living and breathing can allow themselves feelings of melancholy, denial…

— Alexander Kushner

“Mine was the sort of heart that had to overcome melancholy and free itself from many depressing weights.”

— Saul Bellow

“I believed in the existence of other and more vivid kinds of goodness, and what I believed in I wished to behold. Who blames…

— Charlotte Brontë

“I was hardly worthy of these surroundings. And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped about my body, and had the…

— Arthur Golden

“You must expect from me nothing but the melancholy effusions of a broken Heart which is ever reverting to the Happiness it once enjoyed...”

— jane austen

“He had often felt anguish before, and it would be no wonder if it came at such a moment, when he was preparing, the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky