#melancholy

A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn? ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#autumn #because #cousins #day #easter

I'm so involved in melancholy. ↗

— Isaac Mizrahi

#involved #melancholy

That's one thing about fashion that you really shouldn't be-you can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it. ↗

— Isaac Mizrahi

#because #fashion #melancholy #one thing #people

He really had experienced every tiniest increment of time in the four decades since then, and yet here he was surprised to be suddenly old and crippled. Turned out the rope didn't care if you noticed every daisy on the path to the gallows. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#death #life #melancholy #old #time

A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#poets

Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies. ↗

— Emil Cioran

#melancholy #misery #syllogism #misery

Name me no names for my disease, With uninforming breath; I tell you I am none of these, But homesick unto death —Homesick for hills that I had known, For brooks that I had crossed, ...Before I met this flesh and bone And followed and was lost… .And though they break my heart at last, Yet name no name of ills. Say only, "Here is where he passed, Seeking again those hills. ↗

— Witter Bynner

#melancholy #regret #yearning #death

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom. ↗

— George Will

#back #could #freedom #i #innocence

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations. ↗

— Joseph Howe

#matters #may #melancholy #smile #these

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. ↗

— David Hume

#knees #melancholy #men #much #oftener