Melancholy Quotes - Page 17

• At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Morning, Moon, Twenties

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Book House (2016). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.62, Book House

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• I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.

  John Derbyshire

  Loneliness, Compassion, Soul

  "The Guillotining of John Derbyshire". Interview with Alex Kurtagic, www.amren.com. April 12, 2012.

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• Bueno, los musicales hacen hincapié en el amor, la añoranza, la melancolía, la tristeza. Todo eso está siempre presente.

  Ismail Merchant

  Sad, Giving Up, Never Give Up On Love

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• ... podría haber conejos parlantes, arañas que escriben mensajes en inglés en sus telarañas y, para el caso, melancólicos trenes chu-chu. Podría haberlos, supongo, pero no los hay, así que mi teoría no tiene por qué explicarlos.

  Daniel Dennett

  Escribir, Hablar, Religión

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• The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.

  Homer

  Evil, Joy, Suffering

  Homer (2015). “The Odyssey”, p.563, Homer

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• Un poco de enfriamiento de la excitabilidad y el instinto animales, una pequeña pérdida de dureza animal, un poco de debilidad irritable y descenso del umbral del dolor, sacarán a la luz el gusano que está en el núcleo de todos nuestros manantiales habituales de placer, y nos convertirán en metafísicos melancólicos.

  William James

  Pain, Spring, Loss

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.140, Courier Corporation

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• Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.

  Emile M. Cioran

  World, Ends, Yearning

  "A Short History of Decay". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1949.

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• A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood.

  Ben H. Winters

  Depression, Blue, Blood

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• I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  War, Tears, Legs

  Louisa May Alcott, O. Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Charles Dickens (2016). “CLASSICS FOR CHRISTMAS: 180+ Novels, Christmas Tales, Poems & Carols in One Volume (Illustrated): The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, Christmas Bells, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Mistletoe Bough, The Wonderful Life of Christ¦”, p.7033, e-artnow

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• A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.

  Paul Tsongas

  Vida, Alegría, Inspirar

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• How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with a reality itself, and believed that a photograph of these appearances to be a photograph of it. It is a melancholy truth that I will never be able to photograph it and can only fail. I am a reflection photographing other reflections within a reflection. To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.

  Duane Michals

  Confused, Believe, Reflection

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• There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Heart, Reflection, Gravity

  Walter Savage Landor (1846). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.114

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• Es importante contemplar la muerte porque forma parte de la vida. Es algo triste, melancólico pero romántico al mismo tiempo. Es el final de un ciclo: todo tiene que terminar. El ciclo de la vida es positivo porque da lugar a cosas nuevas.

  Alexander McQueen

  Cycle Of Life, Giving, Important

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• Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Book, Reading, Relief

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• It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally exposed to danger whether the government have too much power or too little power and that the line which divides these extremes should be so inaccurately defined by experience.

  James Madison

  Reflection, Government, Liberty

  James Madison Ralph Ketcham, "Selected Writings of James Madison", Hackett Publishing.

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• What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?

  Nick Hornby

  Music, Records, Firsts

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• Todo hombre contempla su condición humana con cierta melancolía. Como un barco encallado es golpeado por las olas, así el hombre, preso en la vida mortal, yace a merced de los acontecimientos venideros.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mentira, Destino, Hombres

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy

  Kyffin Williams

  Otoño

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• No intentaremos dar al lector una idea de aquella nariz tetraédrica, de aquella boca de herradura, de aquel pequeño ojo izquierdo ensombrecido por una frente roja y tupida, mientras que el ojo derecho desaparecía por completo bajo una enorme verruga, de aquellos dientes rezagados con brechas aquí y allá como las almenas de una fortaleza, de aquel labio córneo, sobre el cual uno de aquellos dientes se proyectaba como el colmillo de un elefante, de aquel mentón bífido y, sobre todo, de la expresión difundida sobre el conjunto, aquella mezcla de malicia, asombro y melancolía. Que el lector, si puede, se imagine esta combinación.

  Victor Hugo

  Caballo, Ojo, Expresión

  Victor Hugo (18??). "Las novelas de Victor Hugo: Profusamente ilustradas con elegantes grabados en madera"

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• These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.

  Victor Hugo

  Attitude, Hands, Greek

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• People think I'm really melancholy and romantic and all whispery. I'm not at all. I'm very direct.

  Norah Jones

  Thinking, People, Direct

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• Nos divertiremos con las formas que se nos dan: un rostro humano, una mano, el pecho de una mujer o el cuerpo de un hombre, una expresión alegre o apenada, los mares infinitos, las rocas salvajes, el lenguaje melancólico de los árboles negros en la nieve, la fuerza salvaje de las flores de primavera y el pesado letargo de un caluroso día de verano, cuando Pan, nuestro viejo amigo, duerme y los fantasmas del mediodía susurran. Sólo esto basta para hacernos olvidar el dolor del mundo, o para darle forma.

  Max Beckmann

  Verano, Primavera, Duelo

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• The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy that it would be dangerous, considering their numbers.

  George Savile, 1er Marqués de Halifax

  Men, Numbers, Would Be

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• Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.

  John Donne

  Spirit, Spirit Of God

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• While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk, and then in octaves by the violins and violas, it is a melancholy and contemplative tune.

  Oso McCreary

  Lonely, Tunes, Violin

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