{"quotes":[{"text":"She had never looked as well. She had entered her room as just an impossibly lovely girl. The woman who emerged was a trifle thinner, a great deal wiser, an ocean sadder. This one understood the nature of pain, and beneath the glory of her features, there was character, and a sure knowledge of suffering.","author":"William Goldman","tags":["beauty","heartbreak","loss","love","melancholy","pain","sorrow","suffering"],"id":181,"author_id":"William+Goldman"},{"text":"I felt lonely, and in full possession of my loneliness. It was the first time I had owned anything of value.","author":"Ben Greenman","tags":["loneliness","melancholy","ownership","solitude"],"id":6143,"author_id":"Ben+Greenman"},{"text":"I'll use the blood from my spilling heart to write the words that were never able to slip out of my mouth, so you can see how much you've broken me into a perpetual state of melancholy.","author":"Karen Quan","tags":["broken","crying","emotional","melancholy","mouth","pain","sorrow","words","writing"],"id":7690,"author_id":"Karen+Quan"},{"text":"Name me no names for my disease,With uninforming breath;I tell you I am none of these,But homesick unto death —Homesick for hills that I had known,For brooks that I had crossed,...Before I met this flesh and boneAnd followed and was lost… .And though they break my heart at last,Yet name no name of ills.Say only, 'Here is where he passed,Seeking again those hills.","author":"Witter Bynner","tags":["longing","melancholy","regret","yearning"],"id":8017,"author_id":"Witter+Bynner"},{"text":"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 say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["dreams","happiness","melancholy","sadness","sleep","waking","woman","women"],"id":13237,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"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.","author":"P.G. Wodehouse","tags":["depression","humor","melancholy","wit"],"id":14789,"author_id":"P.G.+Wodehouse"},{"text":"Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.","author":"Scott Turow","tags":["disappointment","love","melancholy"],"id":17082,"author_id":"Scott+Turow"},{"text":"Had it been possible for me to fix the plane permanently in the sky, to defy the winds and clouds and all the forces pushing it upward and pulling it earthward, I would have willingly done so. I would have stayed in my seat with my eyes closed, all strength and passion gone, my mind as quiescent as a coat rack under a forgotten hat, and I would have remained there, timeless, unmeasured, unjudged, bothering no one, suspended forever between my past and my future.","author":"Jerzy Kosiński","tags":["beautiful","melancholy"],"id":21976,"author_id":"Jerzy+Kosi%C5%84ski"},{"text":"Night never needs a shade but it requires to fade into the grin of twinkling stars where light is just a glint of scars.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["aching","dark","darkness","glint","glint-of-a-star","grin","light","melancholy","need","night","night-sky","pain","poetry","require","scar","scars","shade","star","starlight","stars","twinkle","twinkling","twinkling-star"],"id":23122,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"I realised I never wanted to leave her side, and I never wanted her to have to struggle to be released from her sadness. I could never suggest she required release; for she did not require release. It was a true thing, this sadness of hers; a true thing about the world, about life, about herself. I just wanted Daphne. I wanted who she was, how she was, only her, all of her, always. And I knew I would be forever treading the long path towards that shrouded chamber of dusky luminance I glimpsed in her flickering sort of half-smiles.","author":"R.M. Miller","tags":["love","melancholy","sadness"],"id":25825,"author_id":"R.M.+Miller"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":224,"pages":23,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}