MELANCHOLY

Related Subjects: Depression, Despondency, Pessimism, Sigh, Sorrow

1. That which Pythagoras said to his scholars of old, may be for ever applied to melancholy men, eat no beans.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

2. Naught so sweet as melancholy.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

3. The chronic melancholy which is taking hold of the civilized races with the decline of belief in a beneficent power.—THOMAS HARDY, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
   

4. There's not a string attuned to mirth
   But has its chord in melancholy.—THOMAS HOOD, Ode to Melancholy

5. Ay, in the very temple of Delight
   Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine.—KEATS, Ode on Melancholy
   

6. My mind is gay but my soul is melancholy.—ANDREW LANG
   

7. Moping melancholy,
   And moon-struck madness.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
   

8. Hence, loathed Melancholy,
   Of Cerberus and blackest midnight born.—MILTON, L'Allegro
   

9. It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
   

10. He is of a very melancholy disposition.—SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
    

11. Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.—SYDNEY SMITH, Lady Holland's Memoir