All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France
Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy
Robert Burton
Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy
Robert Burton
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Maurice Chevalier
On living in Eric Clapton`s country house: "I loved living in the country; that was the best time we had. It was the most staggeringly romantic garden. There was a sadness in the house and garden, a kind of melancholy which was very Eric, in a way, and ve...
Pattie Boyd
I do have the ability to explore life and to be over the moon at the smallest thing - a few pints and a craic in the pub and I`m in heaven. But I have a melancholy side to me as well. Acting allows me to feel things, it kind of buys me human experience. A...
Colin Farrell
There is no love without suffering. I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love. To completely sacrifice myself until death.
Arielle Dombasle
I`m not melancholy; I`m a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that`s mellow, though.
Norah Jones
Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.
Amy Wroblewski
Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.
Amy Wroblewski
When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it`s just wonderful.
Francois Truffaut
The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it`s cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.
Anais Faraj
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
Aidan Kavanagh
My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.
Al Ansley
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.
Alfie Kohn
It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease
Thomas C. Haliburton
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