Active Quote by Jane Austen

Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.

— Samuel Johnson

Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.

— Ann Radcliffe

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.

— Samuel Johnson

Work saves us from melancholy. Pleasure exposes us to it.

— Mason Cooley

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of…

— Gunter Grass

As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work

— Charles Baudelaire

There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy.

— Milan Kundera

But the morbidity of sorrow-not cultivated sorrow, but that which comes inevitably-is often a productive sluggishness, a time when the soul slows down, too…

— Eric G. Wilson

Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.

— Anonymous

I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.

— Robert Burton

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

— Victor Hugo