#melancholy

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#important #melancholy #nothing #writers #writing

We have the melancholy dilemma of not being in a state to make peace or to prosecute war. ↗

— George Montagu

#dilemma #make #melancholy #peace #prosecute

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#melancholy #stems

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat. ↗

— Norah Jones

#always #ballads #been #drawn #ever

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another! ↗

— Gail Sheehy

#before #behind #changes #die #enter

In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the blessed Apostle, of whom we have been speaking. ↗

— John Strachan

#applying #been #bishop #blessed #compare

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears? ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#tears

There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks. ↗

— Richard D. James

#melancholy #tracks

Qué haré ahora con mis labios sin su boca para llenarlos? ¿Qué haré de mis adoloridos labios? ↗

— Juan Rulfo

#melancholy #love

So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or suggest anything to it. And this seems to be the reason why persons that are under the disease of melancholy are commonly so visibly and remarkably subject to the suggestions and temptations of Satan... Innumerable are the ways by which the mind may be led on to all kind of evil thoughts, by the exciting of external ideas in the imagination. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#melancholy #mind #imagination