A Quote by Robert A. Burton

Naught so sweet as melancholy.

Robert A. Burton

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Robert A. Burton
American - Novelist
Born: 1941

Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only melancholy; O sweetest melancholy!

John Fletcher

My sweet spot, the stuff I like the most, is hopeful melancholy. Optimistic melancholy.

Paul Rust

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.

Alcaeus

Yet I experienced sometimes that the most sweet and tender, the most innocent and encouraging society may be found in any naturalobject, even for the poor misanthrope and most melancholy man. There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of nature and has his senses still.

Henry David Thoreau

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

Francis Beaumont

Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No grief so soft, no pain so sweet, as love's delicious melancholy.

Frances Sargent Osgood

Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a brere; Sweet is the juniper, but sharp his bough; Sweet is the eglantine, but stiketh nere; Sweet is the firbloome, but its braunches rough; Sweet is the cypress, but its rynd is tough; Sweet is the nut, but bitter is his pill; Sweet is the broome-flowre, but yet sowre enough; And sweet is moly, but his root is ill.

Edmund Spenser

At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.

James Beattie

My mother used to always say to me, 'Do naught, get naught.' It's an adage that I hold by. If you don't do anything, you can't really expect anything.

Peter Hook

I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair.

William Shakespeare

Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.

Georges Bernanos

In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.

Sophie Swetchine

For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all day. I felt myself a changed girl. A strange melancholy was stealing over me, a melancholy that I would not have interrupted. Dim thoughts of death began to open, and an idea that I was slowly sinking took gentle, and, somehow, not unwelcome possession of me. If it was sad, the tone of mind which this induced was also sweet. Whatever it might be, my soul acquiesced in it.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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