“It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.”
Source: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 28
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Aristotle 230
Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder o… -384–-321 BCRelated quotes
Section 4, member 2, subsection 3, Causes of Despair, the Devil, Melancholy, Meditation, Distrust, Weakness of Faith, Rigid Ministers, Misunderstanding Scriptures, Guilty Consciences, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Source: Nature and Selected Essays
“In nature there is nothing melancholy.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem, lines 13-22 (1798).
Context: "Most musical, most melancholy" bird!
A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought!
In nature there is nothing melancholy.
But some night-wandering man, whose heart was pierced
With the remembrance of a grievous wrong,
Or slow distemper, or neglected love,
(And so, poor wretch! filled all things with himself,
And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale
Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he,
First named these notes a melancholy strain.
“In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.”
Sören Kierkegaard
(1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
“At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.”
Federico García Lorca
(1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director
Thomas Clarkson
(1760–1846) English abolitionist
An essay on the slavery and commerce of the human species, particularly the African, translated from a Latin Dissertation, p. 54 (1788) https://books.google.com/books?id=pBOe7105MhMC&pg=PA54
“Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.”
Section 3, member 1, subsection 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
Washington Irving
(1783–1859) writer, historian and diplomat from the United States
Book II, ch. 3.
Knickerbocker's History of New York http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13042 (1809)
