432 Quotes About Melancholy

  • Author Arthur Rimbaud
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    Mais, vrai, j’ai trop pleuré ! Les Aubes sont navrantes.Toute lune est atroce et tout soliel amer:L’âcre amour m’a gonflé de torpeurs enivrantes.Ô que ma quille éclate ! Ô que j’aille à la mer!

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  • Author Kazi Nazrul Islam
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    সে দেশে যবে বাদল ঝরেকাঁদে না কি প্রাণ একেলা ঘরে,বিরহ ব্যথা নাহি কি সেথা বাজে না বাঁশি নদীর তীরে।।

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  • Author Guy de Maupassant
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    She stayed there, in her ball dress, without strength to go to bed, overwhelmed, on a chair, without a fire, without a thought.

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  • Author John Donne
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    Out of a fired ship, which by no wayBut drowning could be rescued from the flame,Some men leap'd forth, and ever as they cameNear the foes' ships, did by their shot decay;So all were lost, which in the ship were found,They in the sea being burnt, they in the burnt ship drown'd.

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  • Author Robert Hass
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    So few things we need to know.And the old wisdoms shudder in us and grow slack.Like renunciation. Like the melancholy beautyof giving it all up. Like walking steadfastin the rhythms, winter light and summer dark.And the time for cutting furrows and the dance

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  • Author Banana Yoshimoto
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    Es war mir unmöglich, die wahre Bedeutung dieser Melancholie zu begreifen, die seine Persönlichkeit prägte und deren Schattenspiel mich faszinierte.

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  • Author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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    The greatest madness a man can be guilty of in this life, is to let himself die outright, without being slain by any person whatever, or destroyed by any other weapon than the hands of melancholy

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