Depression is melancholy minus its charms.

Susan Sontag
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  2. I am my heart’s undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow. - Emilie Autumn

  3. Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love. - Scott Turow

  4. I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us. - Hermann Hesse

  5. 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. - P.g. Wodehouse

More Quotes By Susan Sontag
  1. The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

  2. That's the source of the meditation on death I've carried in my heart all my life.

  3. A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.", Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]

  4. The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.

  5. Writing is a mysterious activity.

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