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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

A feeling of melancholy prevails at what I am leaving behind. - SC

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Maurice Chevalier

A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.
Paul Tsongas

A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.
Stephan Jenkins

A lot of the time there is a lot of melancholy in the lyrics.
Will Champion

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

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
Amelia Barr

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

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

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
George Saintsbury

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

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
Susan Sontag

Diabetes is caused by melancholy.
Thomas Willis

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
Francois Fenelon

Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.
Antonio Tabucchi

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
Charles Baudelaire

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.
Julia Ward Howe

I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.
James Otis

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.
Sandra Bullock

I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.
Chantal Kreviazuk