Arise Quote by Walter Savage Landor

As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the…

— Pliny the Elder

Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.

— Lawrence Durrell

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

— Abraham Lincoln

I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not…

— Pliny the Elder

Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

— Immanuel Kant

Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.

— John Ford

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

— Edgar Allan Poe

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

— Victor Hugo

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

— Italo Calvino

I like to express true emotions under the cover of melancholy: It includes fulfilment and pain, which describes human existence.

— Volker Bertelmann

Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.

— Anonymous

Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to…

— Walter Benjamin