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“I want to drown in my tears,And my tears are my prayers.”
“My prayers, my tears, my wishes, fears, and lamentations, were witnessed by myself and heaven alone. When we are harassed by sorrows or anxieties, or long oppressed by any powerful feelings which w...”
“The most romantic creation to have come out of regret is time-travel”
“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.”
“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”
“You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down”
“We are inside soft, sweet and pure white despair.”
“I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry.Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, i...”
“I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the top of the beer can.”
“Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake.”
“If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I dont admit to being hopeless, though: only the spectacle is a profoundly strange one; and as ...”
“A mist is rolling over the fields. Why is a summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?”
“I only wanted absolute quiet to think out why I had developed a sad attitude toward sadness, a melancholy attitude toward melancholy and a tragic attitude toward tragedy why I had become identifie...”
“Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In the beginning she haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks lat...”
“Ah God! to see the branches stir Across the moon at Grantchester! To smell the thrilling-sweet and rotten Unforgettable, unforgotten River-smell, and hear the breeze Sobbing in the little trees. S...”
“There is a phase of melancholya phase that has sloughed all urgencythat seems to me always a revelation of that ancient, familiar thing, my true self. If there is anything in a person with which on...”
“Poor little place,' he murmured with a sigh.She heard him. He said the most melancholy things, but she noticed that directly he had said them he always seemed more cheerful than usual. All this phr...”
“She dried her tears, and they did smileTo see her cheeks returning glow;Nor did discern how all the whileThat full heart throbbed to overflow.With that sweet look and lively tone,And bright eye shi...”
“Solitude appeared to me as the only fit state of man.”
“, And you, ye stars,Who slowly begin to marshal,As of old, the fields of heaven,Your distant, melancholy lines!Have you, too, survived yourselves?Are you, too, what I fear to become?You, too, once ...”
