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Melancholy  Quotes
The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

—Oscar Wilde

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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

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A happy clown inside spat out a pig-in-a-blanket and yelled at the cute waitress holding the tray. … I had to throw up but other than the banker’s suit forcing its way onto Elise’s face...

—Bruce Crown

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I cannot bear it!” said the pewter soldier. “I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a...

—Hans Andersen

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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

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Solace of Silencesurreal synapsesof a melancholy dronea dream per chanceshe dared not be alone…

—Muse

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As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you’d think I’d grow accustomed to the gloom.

—Richelle E.

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they ask why do i look so sadthey wonder if there is something that makes me madhaven’t they understood it all by now? i’m neither mad nor sadi’m just a poet in a dark outfit...

—Unknown Author

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So few things we need to know.And the old wisdoms shudder in us and grow slack.Like renunciation. Like the melancholy beautyof giving it all up. Like walking steadfastin the rhythms, winter light and summer dark.And...

—Robert Hass

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When I say to the moment flying…linger a while-thou art so fair” – Faust

—Antonia Michaelis

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The cloudless day is richer at its close;A golden glory settles on the lea;Soft, stealing shadows hint of cool reposeTo mellowing landscape, and to calming sea.And in that nobler, gentler, lovelier light,The soul to sweeter,...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

—Italo Calvino

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Es ist ein Unterschied, ob man sterben will oder ob man keine Lust zu leben hat. Wenn man sterben will, dann will man wenigstens etwas. Ich will nichts.

—Katarina von

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Her voice was soft and numinous, as befitted any Aizian singer, yet it was not just bells and melody. There was something else in her tune, a strand of solemnity that no Aizian could possess,...

—Mary-Jean Harris

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I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry.Then I looked at the...

—Ray Bradbury

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Often it feels like I am breathing today only because a few years back I had no idea which nerve to cut…

—Sanhita Baruah

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I “dated” one boy and our song was “Faithfully” by Journey. Every time it played my body would turn electric, and I would stare out whatever window I was near and reminisce about experiences I...

—Amy Poehler

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So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.

—Dodie Smith

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Cyrano: The leaves—Roxane: What color—Perfect Venetian red! Look at them fall.Cyrano: Yes—they know how to die. A little wayFrom the branch to the earth, a little fearOf mingling with the common dust—and yetThey go down...

—Edmond Rostand

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DeathGraceMelancholy
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Some pain has no relief,it can only be sealed You can grasp the wound to feel the scar unhealed.

—Munia Khan

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Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

—Pope VI

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I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the top of the beer can.

—Sylvia Plath

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Pale, with dark hair, the one who is coming is melancholy, romantic. And I am arch and fluent and capricious; for he is melancholy, he is romantic. He is here.

—Virginia Woolf

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He was beneath the waves, a creature crawling the ocean bottom.

—Doppo Kunikida

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I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has...

—Edgar Allan

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For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all day. I felt myself a changed girl. A strange melancholy was stealing over...

—Joseph Sheridan

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I felt less unhappy than usual because her melancholy expression, the way the vivid colour of her dress almost cut her off from the rest of the world, made her seem somehow lonely and unhappy,...

—Marcel Proust

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GuermantesMelancholyUnhappiness
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Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

—Roger Zelazny

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Love and happiness are nothing more but distractions.

—Unknown Author

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The lost glove is happy.

—Vladimir Nabokov

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Despite her words about letting go, melancholy washed over her. Because words are easy and often thrown around with trite intentions.

—A. Lynn

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IntentionsLetting-GoMelancholy
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Ballade no. 1.

—Ella Leya

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ChopinDarknessMelancholy
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How I hate everything!

—Edith Wharton

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Melancholy
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But when the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, And hides the green hill in an April shroud; Then glut thy sorrow on a...

—John Keats

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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

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Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so full of ‘facts’ they feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliant’ with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll...

—Ray Bradbury

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What if you wake up one fine morning only to realize that the life you have been living since the last few days was nothing but a dream of yours?Would you go back to sleep...

—Sanhita Baruah

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Maybe all Americans who suffer from melancholy act as if they have gone mad. But I truly thought he might throw himself in the river, and I don’t want his ghost visiting to keep telling...

—Amy Tan

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MadnessMelancholySorry
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When people call it that I always get pissed off because I always think depression sounds like you just get like really sad, you get quiet and melancholy and just like sit quietly by the...

—David Foster Wallace

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DepressionMelancholyPeaceful
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Know ye not that there is here in this world a secret confraternity, which one might call the Company of Melancholiacs? That people there are who by natural constitution have been given a different nature...

—Jens Peter

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LifeMelancholy
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Only tears can hear the sound of pain when warm blood reddens discolored stain

—Munia Khan

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Hands that never touch. Lips that never meet. The Almost Lovers, never to be.

—Rae Hachton

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After much effort to live up to a glorious standard there came fatigue, wan hope, and boredom. I experienced extreme boredom. I saw others experiencing it too, many denying, by the way, that any such...

—Saul Bellow

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Poor little place,’ he murmured with a sigh.She heard him. He said the most melancholy things, but she noticed that directly he had said them he always seemed more cheerful than usual. All this phrase-making...

—Virginia Woolf

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MelancholySuicide
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That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.

—Anita Brookner

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GriefHopelessnessMelancholy
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Only, it’s not an it. It’s a her. A zombie. A woman. A zombie woman. She’s older than Janine, closer to my age, maybe early thirties, missing a little bit of her face, but otherwise...

—Charles Yu

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MelancholyPrettyZombie-Life
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His day, usually a jelly-like creature, a shapeless, spineless thing, had attained Mesozoic structure. It was marching along surely, even jauntily, toward a climax, as a play should, as a day should. He dreaded the...

—F. Scott

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Concha would cry when she found out I was dead, she should have no taste for life for months afterward. But I was still the one who was going to die. I thought of her...

—Jean-Paul Sartre

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The anaesthetic effect of habit being destroyed, I would begin to think – and to feel – such melancholy things.

—Marcel Proust

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AnaestheticHabitMelancholy
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Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster.

—Noelle Oxenhandler

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