Quotes about Melancholy

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Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous. — Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Hands that never touch. Lips that never meet. The Almost Lovers, never to be. — Rae Hachton, Frankie's Monster
Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see befor — Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness
Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In — John Green, Looking for Alaska
If you close your eyes when you sing in Latin, and if you stand right at the back so you can keep one hand against the c — Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home
It is warm, I am alive, I am calm and sad, I hardly know why. In this existence so even, so tranquil, and so gentle as I — George Sand
Then he remembered his wedding, the old times, the first pregnancy of his wife; he, too, had been very happy the day whe — Gustave Flaubert
The whole composition reminds him of something he once had and that he isn't sure if he misses. He does and he doesn't a — Daniel Galera, Barba Ensopada de Sangue
She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone into making a — Lois Lowry, A Summer to Die
Colourful autumn is a tristful travel to the pale Planet of Melancholy! — Mehmet Murat ildan
I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. I — Douglas Coupland, Life After God
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano! — William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
There's a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night's. — Ed Gorman, Everybody's Somebody's Fool
I felt lonely, and in full possession of my loneliness. It was the first time I had owned anything of value. — Ben Greenman, What He's Poised to Do: Stories
In any case, there was only one tunnel, dark and lonely, mine, the tunnel in which I had spent my childhood, my youth, m — Ernesto Sabato, El túnel
There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, b — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
Perhaps she would have liked to confide all these things to someone. But how tell an undefinable uneasiness, variable as — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
There is a phase of melancholy—a phase that has sloughed all urgency—that seems to me always a revelation of that ancien — Quentin S. Crisp, The Little One: A Meditation
They wanted a list of symptoms: dizziness, blurred vision, palpitations. You could not say, it is a different life tryin — Jean Thompson, She Poured Out Her Heart
Broken MelodyBroken melody — tear sparkling in the eyeOf a woman loved…Please past,Jewel lost,A trampled dreamLips unkis — Millosh Gjergj Nikolla (Migjeni), Free Verse