Different moods Quote by James Joyce

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Matthew Lewis

“It wasn't that they were unpleasant people; indeed, they were the sweetest things ever; they just enjoyed melancholy and seemed to take heart and…

— Howard Fast

He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that…

— Horace Walpole

“No poetry lives which reflects only the cheerful emotions. Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought. We can bring harmony out…

— Leslie Stephen

“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

It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and…

— Charles Baudelaire

Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“He saw that men who worked hard, and earned their scanty bread with lives of labour, were cheerful and happy; and that to the…

— Charles Dickens

“In time, we found a common interest in poetry. He reads nothing else. Day in, day out. Never happier he is than when reading…

— Jane Austen

“Bitterness, recriminations, advice, morality, sadness—everything was behind him, and ahead of him was the ragged and ecstatic joy of pure being (195).”

— Jack Kerouac

“A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs…

— Søren Kierkegaard