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“They say that the Dead die not, but remain Near to the rich heirs of their grief and mirth. I think they ride the calm mid-heaven, as these, In wise majestic melancholy train, And watch the moon, and the still-raging seas, And men, coming and going on the earth.”

Thinking Men Stills Earth Dies Heaven Grief Watches Rich Wise Sea Moon Train Calm Rage Melancholy Heirs Mirth Majestic

Book:1914 & Other Poems

Source: 1914 & Other Poems

“No grief so soft, no pain so sweet, as love's delicious melancholy.”

Pain Grief Sweet Melancholy Delicious No Pain

Author:Frances Sargent Osgood

“Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.”

Men Should Mind Soul Joy Grief Praise Fundamentals Innocent Permanent Melancholy Superficial Fugitive Frame Of Mind

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew my melancholy nature strongly. At first I only wanted to wallow in their misery, but, as time went by, I longed to reach its very essence. Finally I desired to represent it. By this process I managed to shift homosexuality from being a burden to being a cause. The weight lifted and some of the guilt evaporated.”

Firsts Wanted Causes Process Grief Essence Weight Guilt Misery Burden Melancholy Rejected Homosexuality Outlook Despised Deviate

Author:Quentin Crisp

“We will enjoy ourselves with the forms that are given us: a human face, a hand, the breast of a woman or the body of a man, a glad or sorrowful expression, the infinite seas, the wild rocks, the melancholy language of the black trees in the snow, the wild strength of spring flowers and the heavy lethargy of a hot summer day when Pan, our old friend, sleeps and the ghosts of midday whisper. This alone is enough to make us forget the grief of the world, or to give it form.”

“One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal for not caring more; but one cannot and it is better, for if one grieved too deeply at other people's tears, life would be unendurable; and every man has sufficient sorrows of his own without taking to heart his neighbour's.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Feels Trying Heart Doe Would Be Faces Grief Tears Sorrow Oneself Caring Every Man Sufficient Melancholy Brutal Neighbour Not Caring Unendurable Caring More

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.”

Thinking Pain Grief Drinking Folly Melancholy Steep

Author:Alcaeus

“She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm 'i th' bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pinned in thought; and, with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed? We men may say more, swear more; but indeed our shows are more than will; for we still prove much in our vows but little in our love.”

Men May Littles Stills Shows Grief Prove Green Sat Melancholy Yellow Cheeks Swear Our Love Worms Monument Vow Bud Concealment Twelfth Night Important

Author:William Shakespeare

“Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief”

Grief Green Sat Melancholy Yellow Cheeks Monument Concealment Twelfth Night Important

Author:William Shakespeare