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82 Quotes for 'Melancholy' in the Database.

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One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
Author: Pierre Corneille
Source: None
When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
Author: Sufi Epigram
Source: None
In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.
Author: Grannville
Source: None
You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
Author: Doug Floyd
Source: None
Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
Author: Henry Fielding
Source: None
Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.
Author: Jessie B. Fremont
Source: None
Even Pain pricks to livelier living.
Author: Amy Lowell
Source: None
In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.
Author: Swami Brahmanada
Source: None
It's the things I might have said that fester.
Author: Clemence Dane
Source: None
I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.
Author: Midori Ito
Source: None
What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
Author: Robin G. Collingwood
Source: None
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
Author: John Lyly
Source: None
Smile, damn it !! Smile.
Author: Dame Sybil Hathaway
Source: None
I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.
Author: Stefan Edberg
Source: None
You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.
Author: Ethel Barrymore
Source: None
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
Author: John Vance Cheney
Source: None
Innocent as a dove you will harm no one, but wise as a serpent no one will harm you.
Author: Haug
Source: None
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
Author: Pierre Coneille
Source: None
To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer.
Author: Bodenstedt
Source: None
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Author: Carl Jung
Source: None
Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
Author: James Allen
Source: None
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Author: St. Augustine
Source: None
Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.
Author: John Bunyan
Source: None
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.
Author: Emile Durkheim
Source: None
If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook.
Author: Les Giblin
Source: None
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Author: Guillaume Apollinaire
Source: None
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
Author: Leonard Cohen
Source: None
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
Author: E. M. Cioran
Source: None
Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
Author: Alfred Austin
Source: None
Don't tell me peace has broken out.
Author: Bertolt Brecht
Source: None
Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.
Author: Lady Gregory
Source: None
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.
Author: Willard Gaylen
Source: None
If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.
Author: Bowyer Bell
Source: None
Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.
Author: Serge Gainsbourg
Source: None
Right human relations is the only true peace.
Author: Alice A. Bailey
Source: None
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
Author: John Berger
Source: None
Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
Author: John Milton
Source: None
Seek peace, and pursue it. [Prove!4:14].
Author: Bible
Source: None
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
Author: William C. Bryant
Source: None
I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.
Author: Juliette Binoche
Source: None
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
Author: Michel Foucault
Source: None
Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
Author: Antonia S. Byatt
Source: None
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
Author: E. M. Cioran
Source: None
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
Author: Jacques Barzun
Source: None
Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.
Author: The Lion
Source: None
Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Author: Karl Barth
Source: None
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
Author: Marcus T. Cicero
Source: None
The trouble you can get into, just cause you want 5, 000 bucks.
Author: Duck Daffy
Source: None
The peace makers shall be called the children of God.
Author: Bible
Source: None

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