Irish Melancholy Quotes

#1. A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true.

Jason Silva

#2. Ten thousand people wrote letters to the governor of Utah, protesting the verdict, but Joe Hill was executed by a firing squad. Before he died he wrote to Bill Haywood, another IWW leader, "Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize." Socialism,

Howard Zinn

#3. dead. We sinned. We blew it over and over. What was God's part? He did it all. He chose us, made us alive, lavished his grace on us, started us, and will complete what he started.

Mark Hall

#4. You go and find who you really are, and don't let anyone stop you.

Diana Wynne Jones

#5. 'You're Ugly Too' isn't a comedy, but it has a lightness of touch with a hard edge. But it's essentially a warm story tinged with a bit of melancholy in the great Irish tradition. I'm very proud of that film.

Aidan Gillen

#6. No one would ever cast me as an aristocrat. I think the big thing about being an Irish artist is access to melancholy. Especially the American Irish. The availability of loss, some kind of pain, is an important part of who we are. I think my Irishness gave me that.

Brian Dennehy

#7. The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

Edward Abbey

#8. Because humans are capable of choosing, the first cause that created them must have a will.

Nancy Pearcey