Hope Quote by Sharon McMahon Moffitt

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

— Alex Miller

...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that…

— Marcel Proust

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to…

— Anatole France

“The melancholy comes over me, the dismal misery of not knowing where I am, or perhaps losing any sense of who I am, as…

— Simon Armitage

“Melancholy people have two reasons for being so: they don’t know or they hope.”

— Albert Camus

“Out of this sorrowful experience I understand more fully all human strivings, thwarted ambitions, and the infinite capacity of hope.”

— Helen Keller

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

— Anatole France

When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.

— Carl Linnaeus

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

— Anonymous

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

— Raheel Farooq

“Then again, maybe knowing that life will only get duller, sadder, less hopeful afterward would inject melancholy into that moment. You’d miss life’s peak…

— Anita Bartholomew

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.

— Karel Capek