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As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.
Edward Abbey1927–1989A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 4 : Life and Death and All That p.43
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
Samuel Adams1722–1803Letter to Samuel Cooper (30 April 1776)
I’m always described as “cocksure” or “with a swagger,” and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.
Ben Affleckborn 1972Daily Post (Liverpool), “Big Ben makes directing debut” (30 May 2008)
The same heart beats in every human breast!
Matthew Arnold1822–1888“The Buried Life”, st. 2 (1852)
Whensoever by some present hard occurrences thou art constrained to be in some sort troubled and vexed, return unto thyself as soon as may be, and be not out of tune longer than thou must needs.
Marcus Aurelius121–180Meditations (c. 170–180), The Sixth BookIn context
- Advice
If therefore it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid thyself of, when thou wilt.
Marcus Aurelius121–180Meditations (c. 170–180), The Eighth BookIn context
- Philosophy
- Thinking
Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.
Jane Austen1775–1817Persuasion (1817), Chapter VIIn context
- Age
Passion is terrifying, it can rock you, change you, bring your head under, as when a wind rises from the bottom of the sea, and you’re out there in the craft of your mortality, alone.
James Baldwin1924–1987Just Above My Head (1979)
And yet I cannot continue in this condition! I have to remind myself to breathe⁠—almost to remind my heart to beat!
Emily Brontë1818–1848Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter XXXIIIIn context
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806–1861Poems (1844), “Grief”
As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion will break through an unreflecting mind.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BCDhammapada, Ch. 1: The Twin Verses, verse 13
- Thinking
Some things are of that nature as to make
One’s fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.
John Bunyan1628–1688The Pilgrim’s Progress, Part II (1684), verse preface “The Author’s Way of Sending Forth His Second Part of the Pilgrim”
- Laughter
The first and the simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is Curiosity.
Edmund Burke1729–1797A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.
Edmund Burke1729–1797A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Robert Burns1759–1796Johnson’s The Scots Musical Museum (1787–1796)