Melancholy

Famous quotes containing the word melancholy:

“At length upon the lone Chorasmian shore
He paused, a wide and melancholy waste
Of putrid marshes.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

“I saw, in gradual vision through my tears,
The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, . . .”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

“The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)