#melancholy

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations. ↗

— Joseph Howe

#matters #may #melancholy #smile #these

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. ↗

— David Hume

#knees #melancholy #men #much #oftener

Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#been #childhood #ever #genetic #had

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. ↗

— Amelia Barr

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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said. But he never liked anyone who--our friends,' said Clarissa; and could have bitten her tongue for thus reminding Peter that he had wanted to marry her. Of course I did, thought Peter; it almost broke my heart too, he thought; and was overcome with his own grief, which rose like a moon looked at from a terrace, ghastly beautiful with light from the sunken day. I was more unhappy than I've ever been since, he thought. And as if in truth he were sitting there on the terrace he edged a little towards Clarissa; put his hand out; raised it; let it fall. There above them it hung, that moon. She too seemed to be sitting with him on the terrace, in the moonlight. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#imagery #love #marriage #melancholy #moon

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#johnson #literary #melancholy #more #much

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#melancholy #seductive

We have the melancholy dilemma of not being in a state to make peace or to prosecute war. ↗

— George Montagu

#dilemma #make #melancholy #peace #prosecute