Quotes by Amiel, Henri Frederic

Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven t >>

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thoug >>

Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part >>

Quotations about Melancholy

Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all r >>

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. >>

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melanchol >>

Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe.

Amiel, Henri Frederic