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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.
As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon of melancholy.
I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancholy romance.
I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.
There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.
I like to express true emotions under the cover of melancholy: It includes fulfilment and pain, which describes human existence.
A melancholy sound is in the air,
A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail
Around my dwelling. 'Tis the Wind of night.
The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember.
At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.
The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?
It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.
I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.
If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin.
Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.
Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.
Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.
I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn’t point to.
I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.
There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable failure and better times long gone.
I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.
There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.
Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.
Some very silly songs can have an almost melancholy feeling when you put it in a different perspective.
While you are upon earth, enjoy the good things that are here (to that end were they given), and be not melancholy, and wish yourself in heaven.
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
What e'er you are
That in this desert inaccessible,
Under the shade of melancholy boughs,
Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.
Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay.
Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy.
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.
A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.
As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work
I went to bed feeling melancholy, wishing I could have poured out all my fears and insecurities to my mom. Wasn’t that what normal mothers and daughters did?
It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.
Justice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.
Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed.
I always have a decompression period at the end of a film. Sometimes it joyful, because you're just happy to be done. Or it can be melancholy.
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.
I was a banker in Morocco when I first saw 'American Graffiti.' It was before I was an actor, a melancholy time in my life, and this mood was reflected in the film.
When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
Abraham Lincoln was a melancholy man, so he had a dark side that appeals to horror fans.
When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.
The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.
Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?
While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.
You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down
I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying of the year and mystery as well.
Sometimes I like to write the lyrics while I'm on the road, because then you get even more melancholy.
Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair.
Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.
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.
I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.
[Prozac] didn't seem to have any effect whatsoever on my melancholy, my dark vision, and everything else that I'd taken it for.
They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
As a boy and even now, I am wont to melancholy. I do, probably once a day, experience a sincere heartbreak.
'Melancholy' is prettier than 'depression'; it connotes a kind of nocturnal grace. Makes one feel more innocently beleaguered.
