„All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.“
— Robert Burton, kniha The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Author's Abstract.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
„Hence, all you vain delights,
As short as are the nights
Wherein you spend your folly!
There's naught in this life sweet
But only melancholy;
O sweetest melancholy!“
The Nice Valor (1647), Melancholy. Compare: "Naught so sweet as melancholy", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy.
John Fletcher7
anglický jakobínský dramatik 1579 - 1625Podobné citáty
„Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!“
— John Milton English epic poet 1608 - 1674
Zdroj: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 61
— Bill Murray American actor and comedian 1950
Interview with Thomas Chau http://www.cinecon.com/news.php?id=0412221
Kontext: Melancholic and lovable is the trick, right? You've got to be able to show that you have these feelings. In the game of life, you get these feelings and how you deal with those feelings. What you do when you are trying to deal with a melancholy. A melancholy can be sweet. It's not a mean thing, but it's something that happens in life — like autumn.
„Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.“
— Virginia Woolf, kniha Jacob's Room
Zdroj: Jacob's Room
„In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.“
— Sören Kierkegaard Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813 - 1855
— Ed Gorman American writer 1941 - 2016
Zdroj: Everybody's Somebody's Fool
— Prevale Italian DJ and producer 1983
Originál: Tu sei l'eccellenza del fascino: forte e fragile, allegra e malinconica, innocente e perversa, egoista e altruista, socievole e asociale, semplice e complicata, sensibile e impassibile, elegante e trendy, dolce e stronza, vera, concreta... autentica e sincera. Sei una condanna per chi ti osanna. La tua essenza è un capolavoro di donna.
Zdroj: prevale.net
„Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.“
— Jean Rhys, kniha Good Morning, Midnight
Zdroj: Good Morning, Midnight
— William Blake, kniha Songs of Experience
Zdroj: Poems from the Pickering Manuscript (c. 1805), Auguries of Innocence, Line 123
Zdroj: Songs of Experience
„The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.“
— Rutherford B. Hayes American politician, 19th President of the United States (in office from 1877 to 1881) 1822 - 1893
Letter "to a leading editor" (10 April 1875), as quoted in The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes (1876) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22037 edited by James Quay Howard, ch. X, p. 144
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838
Meditation
Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)
„Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.“
— William Blake English Romantic poet and artist 1757 - 1827
„Some are born to sweet delight and others born to endless night.“
— John Hennigan American professional wrestler 1979
ECW TV report for July 24 http://www.f4wonline.com/content/view/3934/105/
— Van Morrison Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician 1945
A New Kind of Man
Song lyrics, A Sense of Wonder (1985)
— W.B. Yeats, kniha Michael Robartes and the Dancer
St. 9
Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), A Prayer For My Daughter http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1421/
Kontext: All hatred driven hence,
The soul recovers radical innocence
And learns at last that it is self-delighting,
Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,
And that its own sweet will is Heaven’s will;
She can, though every face should scowl
And every windy quarter howl
Or every bellows burst, be happy still.