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

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

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

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me. — David Guterson

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

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

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

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

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

Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste. — William C. Bryant

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

You hung around the tattered edges of my soul, that's where you preferred to be ... — Jaeda DeWalt

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

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

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

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night. — Virginia Woolf

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else. — Arnold Bennett

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

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. — Samuel Rogers

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. — Francis Beaumont

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

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

A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy. — Stephan Jenkins

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

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

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

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

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

Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well. — Stephen Dillane

There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks. — Richard D. James

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

No grief so soft, no pain so sweet, as love's delicious melancholy. — Frances Sargent Osgood

When you get abandoned by someone, that's the moment when you've truly lost faith in them. — Nicholas Murray

That's because they're of the past. All photos of the past look melancholy and wistful precisely because they capture something that's gone. — Maggie O'Farrell

The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears. — Nora Roberts

Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease. — John Ford

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing. — Paul McCartney

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

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. — Michael Haneke

I don't know what's worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you've always wanted to be, and feel alone. — Daniel Keyes

Such poor liquor do make a man's throat feel very melancholy
and is a disgrace to the name of stimmilent. — Thomas Hardy

There's this charge in the air, and it takes me awhile to get it at first, to really put it all together. It's melancholy. — C.M. Stunich

Melancholy can be seductive when it's twined with self-pity. — Dean Koontz

Sentimental outbreaks are like liquorice; when first you suck it, it's not bad, but afterwards it leaves a very nasty taste in the mouth. — Ivan Turgenev

Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy. — Virginia Woolf

Let's call my mood melancholy; let's call it remembrance. Or maybe let's call it longing. Yes, let's call it longing instead. — Shannon Celebi

That's one thing about fashion that you really shouldn't be-you can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it. — Isaac Mizrahi

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

How I hate everything! — Edith Wharton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Melancholy can be good for the soul. — Adam Christopher

Depression is melancholy minus its charms. — Susan Sontag

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

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