Sadness and Melancholy

Plaisir d’amour ne dure qu’un moment,

 

It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.

 

Take love when love is given, / But never think to find it / A sure escape from sorrow / Or a complete repose.

Good-night, good-night! parting is such sweet sorrow.

 

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

 

When we two parted

The lion on your old stone gates Is not more cold to you than I.

 

Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past.

 

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.

 

I never saw a man who looked

She only said, ‘My life is dreary,

 

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.

Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

The world is gradually becoming a place where I do not care to be any more.

Ah, where will I find Flowers, come winter, And where the sunshine And shade of the earth? Walls stand cold And speechless, in the wind The weathervanes creak. 1

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.

It was a fine cry—loud and long—but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.

I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.

Nought but vast sorrow was there— The sweet cheat gone.

What a miserable thing life is: you’re living in clover, only the clover isn’t good enough.

Oh lonesome’s a bad place To get crowded into.