Flower Quote by Virginia Woolf

A melancholy sound is in the air, A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail Around my dwelling. 'Tis the Wind of night.

— William C. Bryant

It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence,…

— Don DeLillo

On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.

— John Keats

Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

— Edgar Allan Poe

How bittersweet it is, on winter's night, To listen, by the sputtering, smoking fire, As distant memories, through the fog-dimmed light, Rise, to the…

— Charles Baudelaire

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

— Italo Calvino

I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people…

— Virginia Heffernan

Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

— Immanuel Kant

“How I used to love the dark, sad evenings of late autumn and winter, how eagerly I imbibed their moods of loneliness and melancholy…

— Hermann Hesse

“He loved the interminable winter nights, when the dissatisfied wind mewed through the keyhole, and gusts of acrid smoke were driven down through the…

— Violet Trefusis

“It was a bitter cold winter, with long, hard frosts and heavy gales;”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The long sadness of winter was finally in retreat.”

— Kimberly Cuttler