(80 quotes found)
“I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs.”
William Shakespeare
“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 Paul VI
“There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord. She is never sad but when she sleeps, and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say she hath often dreamt of unhappiness and waked herself with laughing.”
“The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. Like when they say, "As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end."”
Jean Rhys
“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
“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness”
Italo Calvino
“Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch”
Thomas Paine
“I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next... of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.”
Gunter Grass
“'Tis melancholy, and a fearful sign Of human frailty, folly, also crime, That love and marriage rarely can combine, Although they both are born in the same clime; Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine - A sad, sour, sober beverage - by time Is s”
Lord Byron
