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#melancholy

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For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, and the other goes away. ↗


— Charles Dickens


#love #melancholy #sadness #love

He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul. ↗


— Horace Walpole


#marriage #melancholy #marriage

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. ↗


— James Payn


#actions #adopt #asterisks #better #blanks

Ah God! to see the branches stir Across the moon at Grantchester! To smell the thrilling-sweet and rotten Unforgettable, unforgotten River-smell, and hear the breeze Sobbing in the little trees. Say, do the elm-clumps greatly stand Still guardians of that holy land? The chestnuts shade, in reverend dream, The yet unacademic stream Is dawn a secret shy and cold Anadyomene, silver-gold? And sunset still a golden sea From Haslingfield to Madingley? And after, ere the night is born, Do hares come out about the corn? Oh, is the water sweet and cool, Gentle and brown, above the pool? And laughs the immortal river still Under the mill, under the mill? Say, is there Beauty yet to find? And Certainty? and Quiet kind? Deep meadows yet, for to forget The lies, and truths, and pain?… oh! yet Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea? ↗


— Rupert Brooke


#memories #reminiscence #beauty

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. ↗


— Rita Dove


#cheerful #comes #curious #double #i

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

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? ↗


— Oliver Goldsmith


#away #betray #charm #finds #folly

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. ↗


— Oliver Goldsmith


#always #company #end #feel #first

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time. ↗


— David Guterson


#feel #grasp #i #interpret #melancholy

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need. ↗


— David Guterson


#i #me #melancholy #need #produce






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