Pastoral Resources

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.

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

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

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.

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

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.

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

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.

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.

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

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

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

Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.

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.

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.