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The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause. — Edward Young

My melancholy wants to rest in the hiding places and abysses of perfection: that is why I need music. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Colourful autumn is a tristful travel to the pale Planet of Melancholy! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When he first returned to the Badlands in the summer of 1884, the austere landscape seemed to mirror his melancholy. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops. Hope tinged with melancholy - like life. — William Shakespeare

Melancholy Baby dies from an overdose of time — William S. Burroughs

Why is Melancholy like Honey? Because it is very sweet, and it is culled from Flowers. — Hope Mirrlees

Nor was Mr. Bumble's gloom the only thing calculated to awaken a pleasing melancholy in the bosom of a spectator. There — Charles Dickens

Solace of Silence
surreal synapses
of a melancholy drone
a dream per chance
she dared not be alone ... — Muse

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. — Samuel Johnson

What good is intelligence,' Akutagawa asked, 'if you can't ever discover a useful melancholy? — Howard Norman

And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is. — Mircea Eliade

That fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseperable from the perfection of the beautiful. — Edgar Allan Poe

A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that. — Herman Melville

It's how I fill the time when nothing's happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy. — Tim Winton

My world is a million shattered pieces put together, glued by my tears, where each piece is nothing but a reflection of YOU. — Sanhita Baruah

the rank and melancholy smell of charred wet wood and sodden leaves coming towards me on a wisp of air. — Daphne Du Maurier

It was a melancholy day indeed when the sister of solitude was Sunday's silver lining. — Alethea Kontis

The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness — Michael Chabon

But let me now stop; I may be a little partial, and view every thing with the jaundiced eye of melancholy - for I am sad - and have cause. — Mary Wollstonecraft

The beauty of melancholy cannot be attained by looking. You must embrace the terror it breeds. Then you will be pleased. — S.E. Lindberg

The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know. — Homer

Diabetes is caused by melancholy. — Thomas Willis

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy. — Martin McDonagh

In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy. — Daniel Boone

You mustn't bury yourself alive, forget to rise up, or bind yourself to the dust in melancholy surrender. — Oddny Eir

I begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world. — Natalia Ginzburg

Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy. — William Shakespeare

There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body. — E.A. Bucchianeri

I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions. — Chantal Kreviazuk

I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy. — Agnes Varda

He cries behind his wall, I think, and no one knows, not even he. And no one will ever know, and in the end he'll always be alone in smiling pain. — George R R Martin

There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable failure and better times long gone. — Christopher Fowler

In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy. — Soren Kierkegaard

I desire to know you. Every breath of your heart, every fleeting look on your face, the rhythm of your joys, and the melancholy of your sorrows. — Ella Leya

I'm always drawn to melancholy personalities. — Rene Russo

A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell — J.R.R. Tolkien

My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return. — Soren Kierkegaard

Melancholy can be good for the soul. — Adam Christopher

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. — Darcey Steinke

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness of mind. — Nicolas Chamfort

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

She stayed there, in her ball dress, without strength to go to bed, overwhelmed, on a chair, without a fire, without a thought. — Guy De Maupassant

We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad. — Erich Maria Remarque

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's. — Jonathan Coe

Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it. — Emile M. Cioran

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. — Kyffin Williams

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends. — Christopher Hitchens

They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy. — James Russell Lowell

Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world. — Raheel Farooq

I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am rooted, but I flow. — Virginia Woolf

Work saves us from melancholy. Pleasure exposes us to it. — Mason Cooley

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy. — George Saintsbury

At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad. — Victor Hugo

I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne. — Jerome K. Jerome

Veiled melancholy has her sovereign shrine — Stephanie Danler

I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't. — Kim Gordon

Depression is melancholy minus its charms. — Susan Sontag

Somewhat melancholy happiness of offering an object one likes, and that one had bought for oneself! — Herve Guibert

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything. — Sam Rockwell

The first cuckoo's melancholy cry. — William Wordsworth

I cried for a little while, taking a kind of melancholy delight in my own tears, and then I fell asleep. — Barbara Cohen

You must expect from me nothing but the melancholy effusions of a broken Heart which is ever reverting to the Happiness it once enjoyed... — Jane Austen

You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down — Thrity Umrigar

We stand in silence for another moment and I realize how lucky I am to have someone I can be myself around in all my melancholy glory. — Marisa Calin

A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood. — Ben H. Winters

Spanish rain,
A maiden's dress,
Apothecary pills
And ancient thrills;
Melancholy kills
A girl's caress. — Roman Payne

I was not always free from melancholy; but even melancholy had its charms. — Madame Roland

Melancholy is not one of my emotions. Quite seriously, I don't do melancholy. It's a miserable way to be. — Walter Mischel

I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn't point
to. — Daniel Handler

And that's the bottom layer in old boxes: melancholy, an indefinable sense of loss. You dig around and it comes swirling up to the top — John Ajvide Lindqvist

Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods. — Charles Nodier

Melancholy people have two reasons for being so: they don't know or they hope. — Albert Camus

In nature there is nothing melancholy — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There's a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night's. — Ed Gorman

The room didn't look haunted or eerie now;it was only melancholy in it's faded grandeur. — Elizabeth Peters

True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit. — Ben Jonson

Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates. — Ana Castillo

How I hate everything! — Edith Wharton

Melancholy isn't a sign of the book's end; it is its inspiration. Melancholy is reading's muse. — Andrew Piper

The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember. — Mason Cooley

Dyspepsia is responsible for many a reputation for romantic melancholy or ungovernable rages. — Agatha Christie

Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality. — Cyril Connolly

Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy. — Bohumil Hrabal

The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common. — V.S. Naipaul

Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. — Charles Baudelaire

( ... ) too much sadness hath congealed your blood,
And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy. — William Shakespeare

Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed. — Donald Freed

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

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned. — Jamaica Kincaid

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour. — Ray Bradbury

I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art. — Vladimir Nabokov

I have a tremendous battle with melancholy and depression. — Sebastian Faulks

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me. — Charlie Hunnam

The most romantic creation to have come out of regret is time-travel — Preeti Bhonsle

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! — John Milton

There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy. — Michel De Montaigne