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I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise.
Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.
A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.
Ever since I was a kid, I've always been interested in the poetry of melancholy, if you like.
Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well.
I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.
I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.
I liked 'The Darjeeling Limited' very much. There was a melancholy about that film that I liked.
During the wintertime in cold cities, you sometimes need a party to break through the melancholy.
Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy.
People think I'm really melancholy and romantic and all whispery. I'm not at all. I'm very direct.
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.
I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.
A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.
I like the contrast in making something that sounds sunny but also has an element of melancholy to it.
Sometimes I like to write the lyrics while I'm on the road, because then you get even more melancholy.
Some very silly songs can have an almost melancholy feeling when you put it in a different perspective.
There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.
There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
As a boy and even now, I am wont to melancholy. I do, probably once a day, experience a sincere heartbreak.
What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.
There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.
I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancholy romance.
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
If you observe, all classic love songs have a tinge of melancholy that comes naturally with the composition.
I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
In everybody's life, there is love, there is sorrow, there is melancholy. And there might be danger as well.
I'm not a big fan of Christmas, and I think there are a lot of people who feel a bit melancholy at the holiday.
Oftentimes, especially in the context of an acoustic song, I'm motivated to write by some amount of melancholy.
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!
One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically.
I think melancholy is kind of a misunderstood emotion. I don't think it's necessarily an unpleasant or bad emotion.
Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn’t point to.
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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.
As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work
There is a sense of melancholy attached to seeing images of yourself from a different era, especially when you see a picture.
'Melancholy' is prettier than 'depression'; it connotes a kind of nocturnal grace. Makes one feel more innocently beleaguered.
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.
I like to express true emotions under the cover of melancholy: It includes fulfilment and pain, which describes human existence.
Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life.
That's one thing about fashion that you really shouldn't be-you can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it.
There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable failure and better times long gone.