Employment Quote by Samuel Johnson

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

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

— Jane Austen

Improve every opportunity to be melancholy.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Mason Cooley

Improve every opportunity tobe melancholy.

— Henry David Thoreau

Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.

— Robert Burton

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

— Victor Hugo

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.

— Sandra Bullock

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

— Italo Calvino

A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

— Abraham Lincoln

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

— Victor Hugo

For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work,…

— Vincent Van Gogh