Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness

Quote by Italo Calvino

Topics: Sadness Quotes

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the...

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the...

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one...

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one...

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities...

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities...

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing...

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing...

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places...

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places...

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he...

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he...

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to...

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to...

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow...

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow...

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him...The land...

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him...The land...

Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night.

Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night.

I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat...

I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat...

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and...

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and...

Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up

Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.

Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness...

Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness...

If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you...

If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you...