M Quotes
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“Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.”
“Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.”
“Melancholy becomes a song, written with burning tears, that then makes music to the world.”
“Melancholy, being a kind of vacatio, separation of soul from body, bestowed the gift of clairvoyance and premonition. In the classifications of the Middle Ages, melancholy was included among the seven forms of vacatio, along with sleep, fainting, and solitude. The state of vacatio is characterized by a labile link between soul and body which makes the soul more independent with regard to the sensible world and allows it to neglect its physical matrix in order, in some way, better to attend to its own business.”
Source: Eros and Magic in the Renaissance
“Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to redeem them”
Source: The origin of German tragic drama
“Melancholy can be good for the soul.”
Source: The Burning Dark
“Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.”
“Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.”
Source: The heart of Boswell: six journals in one volume
“Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.”
“Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me. Everything was disintegrating. Nothing stood the test of time, including me. Somewhere on the other shore were madness and God, sometimes both wearing a beard. Neither instilled much confidence.”
“Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.”
“Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.”
Source: Chains
“Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.”
Source: Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works
“Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away to make themselves sadder, or to weep beside a stream, or choose a sentimental book! We are constantly building and unbuilding ourselves.”
Source: Intimate notebook, 1840-1841
“Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.”
“Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.”
“Melancholy is kind of sweet sometimes, I think. It's not a negative thing. It's not a mean thing. It's just something that happens in life, like autumn.”
“Melancholy is no bad thing.”
“Melancholy is not one of my emotions. Quite seriously, I don't do melancholy. It's a miserable way to be.”
“Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.”
Source: The Lover's Melancholy
“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
Source: Six Memos for the Next Millennium
“Melancholy is the enticing madness that evokes solitude and ecstasy as it is the song of a secluded sadness, a laughter veiling the falling rain....”
“Melancholy is the enticing madness that evokes the song of sadness, a laughter veiling the falling rain.”
“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”
Source: TOILERS OF THE SEA
“Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.”
Source: Dictionary of Shakespearian quotations: Exhibiting the most forcible passages illustrative of the various passions, affections and emotions of the human mind
“Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)
“Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.”
“Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.”
“Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.”
“Melancholy pervades me every time I enter a souvenir shop. I have been to many of them around the world. I try not to buy anything for multiple reasons. One of them is because I find the way souvenir shops represent a country or a culture problematic, to say the least. The items you find there are almost always either much better or much worse than the way locals do things. Each item is glorified or trivialized – depending on the taste of the manufacturer and the demand of the buyers. They are always designed to give you a presumed idyllic and warm feeling about the country from which you buy them. In reality, many locals strive to get close to owning some of the items displayed in souvenir shops. Moreover, even if locals use items like those displayed, their daily lives are never as romantic and as smooth as the feeling you get in these shops. In a sense, then, souvenir shops are places where people and their cultures are objectified and romanticized par excellence. Their human joys are amplified. Their grand sorrows are downplayed or buried altogether. Their real histories are either erased or diluted at best. Nevertheless, I confess to you, I always end up buying honey. Perhaps because bees represent life to me. Perhaps because I find that healthy bees and wildlife speak volumes about the overall health of a place and its people?”
“Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.”
“Melancholy seems to be running strong among us right now, bypassing our safeguards and infiltrate our well guarded fortresses, our most sacred places, our hearts and minds.”
Source: Peruvian Nights
“Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]”
“Melancholy skies
and empty fields of gold
grey clouds
and emeralds days
our love in pieces
captured only by poems (of mine).”
“Melancholy suicide. - This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract.”
Source: Suicide
“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.”
Source: Jacob's Room
“Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.”
Source: All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms
“Melancolia e poezia ce plânge-n gând...”
“Melancoliile mele sunt crude, sălbatice, dar frumoase: ah, ce frumoase și cât de dulci atunci când mușcă cu o sete de viață de nedescris!”
Source: Fiind imagine. Eseuri din adolescență
“Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was not leaving others. Melanctha Herbert always loved too hard and much too often. She was always full with mystery and subtle movements and denials and vague distrusts and complicated disillusions. Then Melanctha would be sudden and impulsive and unbounded in some faith, and then she would suffer and be strong in her repression. Melanctha Herbert was always seeking rest and quiet and always she could only find new ways to be in trouble.”
“Melandra found that the word Grigori acted like an cantrip-it opened doors and minds.”
Source: Stealing Sacred Fire
“Melangkahlah dengan penuh pengharapan, melompatlah jika itu perlu dilakukan. Karena diam saja tidak akan menghasilkan apapun,.”
“Melania Trump did not object or make a speech when her husband retweeted this. "If Hillary Clinton can`t satisfy her husband, what makes her think she can satisfy America."”
“Melania Trump posted on Twitter -I have at all times been in full compliance with the immigration laws of this country. It's the same message she told MSNBC in February [2016].”
“Melania Trump wanted two things: a sugar daddy and to be an American citizen. She got, instead, the worse version of the American dream.”
“Melania Trump`s husband tweeted this: "Arianna Huffington is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man. He made a good decision."”
“Melania Trump`s husband tweeted this: "Cher, I don`t wear a rug, it`s mine, and I promise not to talk about your massive plastic surgeries that didn`t work."”
“Melanie had the face of a sheltered child who had never known anything but simplicity and kindness, truth and love, a child who had never looked upon harshness or evil and would not recognize them if she saw them. Because she had always been happy, she wanted everyone about her to be happy or, at least, pleased with themselves. To this end, she always saw the best in everyone and remarked kindly upon it. There was no servant so stupid that she did not find some redeeming trait of loyalty and kind heartedness, no girl so ugly and disagreeable that she could not discover grace of form or nobility of character in her, and no man so worthless or so boring that she did not view him in the light of his possibilities rather than his actualities.
Because of these qualities that came sincerely and spontaneously from a generous heart, everyone flocked about her, for who can resist the charm of one who discovers in others admirable qualities undreamed of even by himself? She had more girl friends than anyone in town and more men friends too, though she had few beaux for she lacked the willfulness and selfishness that go far toward trapping men's hearts.
What Melanie did was no more than all Southern girls were taught to do-to make those about them feel at ease and pleased with themselves. It was this happy feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted and safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave the ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence. Scarlett exercised the same charms as Melanie but with a studied artistry and consummate skill. The difference between the two girls lay in the fact that Melanie spoke kind and flattering words from a desire to make people happy, if only temporarily, and Scarlett never did it except to further her own aims.”
Source: Gone with the wind