Melancholy Quotes
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“As melancholy as an unbraced drum.”
“I can suck melancholy out of a song.”
“And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.”
“The greatest note of it is his melancholy.”
“Moping melancholy,
And moon-struck madness.”
“Employment, sir, and hardships, prevent melancholy.”
“All my joys to this are folly,
Naught so sweet as melancholy.”
“All my griefs to this are jolly,
Naught so damn'd as melancholy.”
“There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.”
“Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.”
“Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.”
“Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.”
“Melancholy, I think, is a sort of default vagueness, a get-out clause, a smothering lack of focus.”
“All decent people are melancholy when evening comes. Not for any particular reason. Just on general grounds.”
“To the pure soul by Fancy's fire refined,
Ah, what is mirth but turbulence unholy,
When with the charm compared of heavenly melancholy.”
“Melancholy sees the worst of things,—things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.”
“O melancholy!
Who ever yet could sound thy bottom? find
The ooze, to show what coast thy sluggish crare
Might easiliest harbour in?”
“Go—you may call it madness, folly,
You shall not chase my gloom away.
There's such a charm in melancholy,
I would not, if I could, be gay!”
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