Feeling Quote by Julia Ward Howe

Some very silly songs can have an almost melancholy feeling when you put it in a different perspective.

— Jens Lekman

Standing here, in this quiet house where I can hear the birds chirping out back, I think I’m kind of getting the concept of…

— Gayle Forman

I often remember in this false, distorted way, and the memories are often cloaked in the colour of the sun. Sometimes I feel nostalgia…

— Anonymous

“Let’s call my mood melancholy; let’s call it remembrance. Or maybe let’s call it longing. Yes, let’s call it longing instead.”

— Shannon Celebi

“I honestly can't remember much else about those years except a certain mood that permeated most of them, a melancholy feeling that I associate…

— Donna Tartt

You know that melancholy feeling when you watch the end of a movie and you're crying - but also there is hope? I wanted…

— Amber Mark

“It is the memory of past happiness that makes the present so intolerable.”

— Fay Weldon

Past happiness augments present wretchedness.

— Publilius Syrus

There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.

— Dante Alighieri

Going back into the negative past to find happiness is like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

— Sydney Banks

“At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it.”

— Aaron Lauritsen

“WHEN any extraordinary events, unexpected anxieties or catastrophes, intrude themselves suddenly into a life up to that period peaceful and happy, these unexpected emotions…

— Victor Hugo