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Melancholy Quotes - Page 4

Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.

Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.

"The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September, 2008.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

Sydney Smith, Sarah Austin, Lady Saba Smith Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.323, London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans

You can’t take back texts. If you come off all moody and melancholy in a text, it just sits there in your phone, reminding you of what a drag you are.

Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.304, St. Martin's Griffin

The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.

Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Treasure of the Humble: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.36, 谷月社

I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.

"Edwidge Danticat: The “Create Dangerously” Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. November 23, 2010.

Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.

Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.21

Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

William Shakespeare (1851). “Dictionary of Shakespearian quotations: Exhibiting the most forcible passages illustrative of the various passions, affections and emotions of the human mind”, p.230

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.382, Harvard University Press