Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.
I'm afraid they're in love," he said, concerned. "They don't want to leave you. " He lifted one hand from her waist to gently brush a pair from her neck, where their wings fanned against her jaw. Melancholy, he said, "I know just how they feel.
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.
I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander in that golden maze.
There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't.
Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt. . . doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.
A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like homemade bread.
As a bit of loner, prone to melancholy, with a questionable sexuality, I found great solace in the words of-Dylan, Joni, John Prine and Leonard Cohen. The darker the better.
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
I am a melancholy type of person.
I went to bed feeling melancholy, wishing I could have poured out all my fears and insecurities to my mom. Wasn’t that what normal mothers and daughters did?
The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.
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.
I like to express true emotions under the cover of melancholy: It includes fulfilment and pain, which describes human existence.
Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.
Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.