Melancholy

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Arthur Wellesley

In the middle of the mayhem, you came and sang a song of melancholy. You promised a wildfire, but instead choked the light that was struggling hard fo...

Akshay Vasu

I'm sorry,' Billy says, 'but I felt it was too organized. I like ellipses and teeny jottings and spontaneous poems and particularly all those devices...

Edmund White

All changes have their melancholy.

Amy Cuddy

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...

Julia Ward Howe

There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter sa...

William Shakespeare

The trouble with a baby, for writists, is that they take away your useful melancholy, even the energy to invent some.

D.A. Botta

A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

P.G. Wodehouse