Childishness Quote by William Shakespeare

“Now we are creatures of the darkness Blessed with eternal love to last!” The knowing dawned on me with sharpness Enhanced by glimpses of…

— T.K. Varenko

“Everything that is ended, everything that is last, naturally awakens in man a feeling of sorrow and melancholy. At the same time, it excites…

— Giacomo Leopardi

“What is this life! you cry out. Only silence answers, and it is eloquent. Shining eyes open in the darkness, the eyes of that…

— Thomas Ligotti

“the diversity of things, their individuality, were only an appearance, a veneer. This veneer had melted, leaving soft, monstrous masses, all in disorder—naked, in…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“The melancholy of everything completed!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe…

— Emily Brontë

...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

The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest pang even at the moment of parting; yea, even the eternal farewell is robbed of half…

— Joseph Addison

“Behold,' said the Voice, 'earthly beauty. It is nothing but seeming, for to the uninstructed eye the world appears fruitful and sweet, yet in…

— Maria McCann

“The scene was not without a mixture of awe, such as must always invest the spectacle of guilt and shame in a fellow creature,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“All my romances, by some kind of collusion between their heroes, have invariably followed a prearranged pattern of mediocrity and tragedy, or more precisely,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The frailty of everything, revealed at last.”

— Anonymous