Career Quote by Jane Austen

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

— Jane Austen

“There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness, no greater cure than business.”

— Robert Burton

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

— Raheel Farooq

“happiness is not just a mood—it’s a work ethic.”

— Shawn Achor

“There is nothing more melancholy than empty festive places.”

— Susan Orlean

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

— Mason Cooley

“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

“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

“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 final and long longed-for job: to be unhappy without doing evil.”

— Franz Wright

“All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy”

— Anatole France

“Depression is melancholy minus its charms.”

— Susan Sontag