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    Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

by John Lyly Found in: Melancholy Quotes, Shame Quotes,
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Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad

by Victor Hugo Found in: Melancholy Quotes,
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Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

by John Milton Found in: Melancholy Quotes,
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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of read 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.

by Diane Ackerman Found in: Melancholy Quotes,
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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be read more

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

by Marcus T. Cicero Found in: Melancholy Quotes,
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I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.
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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.

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Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.

Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.

by The Lion Found in: Melancholy Quotes,
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I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

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