Melancholy Quote by Mircea Eliade Download Open image “And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.” — Mircea Eliade ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Melancholy Realizing Useless
I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general. — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
Melancholy is not one of my emotions. Quite seriously, I don't do melancholy. It's a miserable way to be. — Walter Mischel Copy Share Image
Melancholy is kind of sweet sometimes, I think. It's not a negative thing. It's not a mean thing. It's just something that happens in… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
“Stangaciile, ca si timiditatea, au un farmec discret prin surprizele pe care le provoaca, prin panica naiva care o raspandesc.” — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body. — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
“Inainte chiar de a afla vreun raspuns satisfacator, si numai prin faptul ca a fost rostita, intrebarea justa regenereaza si fertilizeaza; si nu numai… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane. — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
“It must never be forgotten that initiatory death simultaneously signifies the end of the "natural," noncultural man, and passage to a new modality of… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
To whatever degree he may have desacralized the world, the man who has made his choice in favor of a profane life never succeeds… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane ... In his encounters with… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
“Mă întreb, bunăoară, dacă nu cumva în ziua când am început să iubesc nu s-a întâmplat ceva lângă mine, ceva pe care eu nu… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
“Eu am optat pentru Viaţă, îi spusese. Vreau să trăiesc, să văd ce are să se întâmple până la urmă...” — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacrilizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
“As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster.” — Noelle Oxenhandler Copy Share Image
You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy. — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are abated; the great single cloud… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image