Melancholy Quotes

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of more

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not more

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.

Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses?

Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses?

Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened.

Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened.

I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.
I am more

I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.
I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;
All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

What I want back is what I was
Before the bed, before the knife,
Before the brooch-pin and the salve
more

What I want back is what I was
Before the bed, before the knife,
Before the brooch-pin and the salve
Fixed me in this parenthesis;
Horses fluent in the wind,
A place, a time gone out of mind.

Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not more

Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.

I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.

Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be more

Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be myself.