"...too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
...too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.
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“Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct.”
“The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deemFor that sweet odour which doth in it live.”
“Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator.”
More on Sadness
“No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?”
“Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waves swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad.”
“Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.”
More on Melancholy
“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
“I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die.”
“Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.”