If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
'Melancholy' is prettier than 'depression'; it connotes a kind of nocturnal grace. Makes one feel more innocently beleaguered.
Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind.
Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.