Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Luther

No one would be happier than Luther to be commended by the testimony of the time that he had been neither slack nor deceitful in maintaining the course of truth, but had shown quite enough and even too much vehemence.

Hector Berlioz

To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an almost morbid melancholy.

Elaine Dundy

The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were they, and what would I do with them, and how much were they going to get in my way?

Samuel Johnson

The resolution of the combat is seldom equal to the vehemence of the charge.

David Guterson

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

Baruch Spinoza

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Alexander McQueen

I am a melancholy type of person.

Albert Camus

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.

Thomas Willis

Diabetes is caused by melancholy.

Soren Kierkegaard

In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.

John Milton

Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy.

Michael Haneke

I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.

George Saintsbury

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

Alan Paton

I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.

Dean Koontz

You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.