Best youth & melancholy Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Summaries of Thought

“I can remember, with unsteady feet, Tottering from room to room, and finding pleasure In flowers, and toys, and sweetmeats, things which long Have lost their power to please; which when I see them, Raise only now a melancholy wish I were the little trifler once again, Who could be pleas'd so lightly.”

Littles Long I Can Remember Lost Wish Pleasure Rooms Feet Youth Flower Please Findings Raises Melancholy Toys

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Southey, LL. D. (later Poet Laureate.)

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Southey, LL. D. (later Poet Laureate.)

“For the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life.”

Lasts Spirit Air Blood Youth Cold Down And Dry Hopeful Melancholy Reign Cheerful Damp

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office

“It is a curious truth - and yet a truth forced upon us by daily observation - that it is not the women who have suffered most who are the unhappy women. A state of permanent unhappiness - not the morbid, half-cherished melancholy of youth, which generally wears off with wiser years, but that settled, incurable discontent and dissatisfaction with all things and all people, which we see in some women, is, with very rare exceptions, at once the index and the exponent of a thoroughly selfish character.”

“When I was really sad, I would be like a little kid wiggling a loose tooth or touching a sore spot - there were things that I did to make myself sadder. It was almost as if I were luxuriant in my own melancholy. Looking at the diaries and thinking about my old self, thinking about my lost youth - that was part of that project of making myself totally miserable.”

Thinking Kids Youth Miserable Melancholy Touching Little Kid Really Sad Old Self

Author:Claire Dederer

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