Quotes by Melancholy There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts. Charles Caleb Colton melancholy effort excellence ... she indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries. Charles Dickens luxury melancholy inspirational So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us! Charles Dickens great-expectations melancholy strange There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass Charles Kuralt melancholy sorrow wind Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best] Christian Nestell Bovee melancholy gratitude worst Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both. Colin Farrell melancholy pain character To the seeker after the new, or the sensational, to those who expect a sinister frisson from modern music, it is my melancholy duty to point out that all the bomb throwing and guillotining has already taken place. Constant Lambert melancholy bombs taken In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy. Daniel Boone melancholy diversity impossible I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn’t point to. Daniel Handler loving-you melancholy reason It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me. David Guterson brooding melancholy Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need. David Guterson melancholy cities needs So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy. Dodie Smith melancholy england I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow. Edgar Allan Poe atmosphere melancholy sorrow I fell in love with melancholy Edgar Allan Poe melancholy Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones. Edgar Allan Poe melancholy tone poetry But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomalyl) that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful. Edgar Allan Poe melancholy perfection beautiful I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy. Edgar Allan Poe melancholy enthusiasm mind Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything. Edward Abbey melancholy passion speak I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing. Edwidge Danticat melancholy writing Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself. Emile M. Cioran symbols ancient melancholy «1234567»