Quotes of: Melancholy Keyword

That Yank glean is long gone anyway; money, sex, power, it’s gone global – no one has a monopoly on it anymore. The towering skyscrapers of New York had fallen long before the second plane; we all knew it. The twang of the Yank accent doesn’t g...

****: The Anatomy of Melancholy

I lock eyes but see no flicker of humanity. Out of shot, bullets fly and bodies fall. In shot, there is only death. War is forced upon these people, and they take up arms naïvely. They fight for a cause, but die for another. Wars are fucked but they...

****: The Anatomy of Melancholy

Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.

The Count of Monte Cristo

Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.

Chains

Solace of Silence surreal synapses of a melancholy drone a dream per chance she dared not be alone...

Enigmatic Evolution

There's a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night's.

Everybody's Somebody's Fool

It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.

Breath

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.

Gunter Grass

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Maurice Chevalier

That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.

The Anatomy of Melancholy

A parapet of breeze tonight on which to lean my melancholy

A Major Selection of the Poetry of Giuseppe Ungaretti: A Bilingual Edition

Es war mir unmöglich, die wahre Bedeutung dieser Melancholie zu begreifen, die seine Persönlichkeit prägte und deren Schattenspiel mich faszinierte.

N.P.

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

Lords of Dyscrasia

The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.

Master and Commander

The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.

Peter Ackroyd

A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?

Hugh Mackay

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Baruch Spinoza

Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to me a lot, actually - the melancholy of the situation becomes more front and center.

Mike White

Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both.

Colin Farrell

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

Rita Dove

I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.

Townes Van Zandt