Human life Quote by Thomas Malthus

“He neither acquits nor condemns, but merely relates, and, just as a dream is more often painful than happy, so a tone of melancholy…

— August Strindberg

“He worries a lot and often suffers from feelings of self-doubt. He has a natural attraction to the melancholy side of life. He is…

— Sandra Nichols

“And his brow was lofty with thought, and his eye wild with care; and, in the few furrows upon his cheek I read the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“the outlines of his figure were indistinct—but his features were the features of a deity; for the mantle of the night, and of the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“created that melancholy of mind which accorded but too well with the religious gloom surrounding him.”

— Matthew Lewis

“True, he had dreamy visions of possibilities: there is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequence of…

— George Eliot

“Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. A…

— Herman Melville

“Her gaze travels back to the lie twisted in a tempest of mud and blood. She witnesses the culmination of her recklessness through a…

— Laura Kreitzer

“He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle melancholy took…

— James Joyce

“He undressed, lay down, put out the light. Two names he whispered into his pillow, the few chaste northern syllables that meant for him…

— Thomas Mann

“Slowed down by a sense of hopelessness in all his decisions and movements, he suffered from bitter sadness, and his incapacity solidified into a…

— Robert Musil

“And so a man’s heart, driven into the darker regions of the soul, denied the very things he most deeply desires, comes out in…

— John Eldredge