Habit Quote by Marcel Proust

“senses could be dulled, and you might withdraw into yourself, feeling numb and empty.”

— Burgess,, Wes

“A desire of desires: the melancholy.”

— Anonymous

“But now and then, beneath the outer numbness, something stirred, like a living pain waiting for the anesthetic to wear away.”

— Zilpha Keatley Snyder

“You can actually eat yourself into a better mood and get rid of depressive thoughts and melancholy.”

— Thorbjörg Hafsteinsdottir

“Melancholy is to know the beauty of life, and to know it must end.”

— Alex Miller

“Once in a while, groundless melancholy would darken my face, a dull and incomprehensible nostalgia for times never experienced would invade me.”

— Clarice Lispector

“My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“Active natures are rarely melancholy. Activity and sadness are incompatible.”

— Anonymous

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

— Raheel Farooq

“There is a melancholy that stems from greatness of mind.”

— Anonymous

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

— Sydney Smith