Anatomy Of Melancholy Quotes

#1. There's a book that's critical to understanding anxiety, a 17th-century book, 'The Anatomy of Melancholy,' by Robert Burton. I wanted to write something like that.

Scott Stossel

#2. This was a characteroloical prelude, but it wasn't chemical or somatic. It was the anatomy of melancholy, not the anatomy of his brain.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#3. But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be inhabited? ... Are we or they Lords of the World? ... And how are all things made for man?
KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)

H.G.Wells

#4. Let your imagination bleed

James William Steele

#5. We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

Walter Savage Landor

#6. When I write a story, I have no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that I want to share something with my readers. The whole idea of writing is this place where you lose control, where you're irresponsible - it's a very liberating place.

Etgar Keret

#7. I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.

Jeannette Walls

#8. I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.

Radha Mitchell

#9. Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.

Oliver Goldsmith

#10. Everyone knows that when advancing into danger, the soprano goes first. They are your infantry, while the altos and tenors are your cavalry, and the bass your artillery.

Rick Riordan

#11. I'm sick of people imposing cultural references and influences on me, but I'm not sick of people talking about my age.

Xavier Dolan

#12. Cynical, hell. I'm a healthy old man with a constitutional mistrust of paternalism and government in large doses.

Harper Lee

#13. JOE: You said my wife. And I want to know, is she -
PRIOR: TALK TO HER YOURSELF, BULLWINKLE! WHAT DO I LOOK LIKE A MARRIAGE COUNSELOR?

Tony Kushner

#14. If you cannot see it, you will not be it

Akosua Dardaine Edwards

#15. We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers that is not freedom of the press.

Anastas Mikoyan