Pastoral Resources

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.

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.

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

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.

A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

That's one thing about fashion that you really shouldn't be-you can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it.

I'm so involved in melancholy.

We have the melancholy dilemma of not being in a state to make peace or to prosecute war.