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Tag Name "Melancholy" (324)

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Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
William C. Bryant
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.
William C. Bryant
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For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things always strike me as simulacra of luxury items. They seem like fakes.
William Gibson
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All my films have always been released in the autumn, maybe because they're more melancholy to people.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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I was not always free from melancholy but even melancholy had its charms.
Madame Roland
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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
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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.
Albert Pike
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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
Albert Camus
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I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!
William Shakespeare
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Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief
William Shakespeare
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Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.
William Shakespeare
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But fish not with this melancholy bait For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.
William Shakespeare
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I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise.
William Shakespeare
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What e'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.
William Shakespeare
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Improve every opportunity to be melancholy.
Henry David Thoreau
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Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity whether we look to ancient or modern times, to barbarous or civilized nations, to the conduct of the world around us, or to the monitor within the breast whether we read, or hear, or act, or think, or feel, the same humiliating lesson is forced upon us.
William Wilberforce
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The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.
William Wordsworth
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Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it from its profound homeland and the look that it casts upon the outer world is gently dismayed.
Adrienne Monnier
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The Future is distant, like the Past, and therefore sentimental. The mere element Past must be retained to sponge up and absorb our melancholy. Everything absent, remote, requiring projection in the veiled weakness of the mind, is sentimental.
Wyndham Lewis
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The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them without that, they would be so melancholy that it would be dangerous, considering their numbers.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
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It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.
Thomas Jefferson
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Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.
Richard Le Gallienne
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But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.
John Milton
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Charles Lamb
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