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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. — P.G. Wodehouse

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

death is a joyous journey for the purposeful life and a melancholy for the mediocre life — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their life is done. — Pierre Corneille

The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher. — Rutherford B. Hayes

But solitude is sadness.'
'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break. — Charlotte Bronte

Only pain can define the meaning of tears. — Munia Khan

There's no comfort, it seems, in the world of objects. — Michael Cunningham

I loved him the way some people are to be loved - from a distance. — Sanhita Baruah

I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see. — Camille Claudel

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

Melancholy is to know the beauty of life, and to know it must end. — Alex Miller

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

This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise. — Dante Alighieri

I'm afraid you'll find out all too soon that life's a melancholy business. — L.M. Montgomery

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

He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle. — P.G. Wodehouse

Nothing you did made sense
and nothing you'll ever do. — Michael Hogan

Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment. — Jean Rhys

Neither can you explain yourself to me. Nor can I explain myself to you. You have your sadness and I have mine. — Avijeet Das

I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancholy romance. — Karen Elson

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general. — Sandra Bullock

But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it. — Margaret Benson

Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster. — Noelle Oxenhandler

I felt a weight on my chest; a sense of hot indignation which settled down into inconceivable melancholy. — Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

One of the melancholy facts of political life is that your convictions tend to align with your paycheck. — Barton Swaim

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. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Sweet pulp and sour skin -
Or was it sweet outside, and sour within? — Tony Harrison

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them. — Erich Maria Remarque

Cut my life into pizzas. this is my plastic fork. oven baking, no breathing, dont give a fuck if its carbs that i'm eating' -Catherine Spann — Catherine Spann

I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober. — Samuel Johnson

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell. — Anthony Trollope

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between. — Albert Camus

A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life. — Paul Tsongas