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"Melancholia" Quotes from Famous Books

... nature of madness, and has ever been termed so by people who have looked at things merely by what they have seen. In the highly-feverish state of the brain the nerves of the whole system soon become involved, the stomach refuses to perform its functions, and physical emaciation and deep melancholia rapidly ensue. The obvious reason is the insane state of the brain. Nature has suddenly impressed that organ with the one idea that a certain fair maid is actually without the faults of her associates. She ...

— The Golden Censer - The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future • John McGovern

... blood an excess of impulsive, imaginative, even fantastic qualities. It is much easier for him to make a fool of himself, to begin with, than it is for people of slower wits and more sluggish temperaments. When you add whiskey to that, or that essence of melancholia which in Ireland they call 'porther,' you get the Kelt at his very weakest and worst. These young men down there are changing all that. They have discovered lager. Already many of them can outdrink the Germans at their own beverage. The lager-drinking ...

— The Damnation of Theron Ware • Harold Frederic

... it was t'other way round, and I was looking after you. Said you were suffering from melancholia, ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, August 1, 1891 • Various

... "Sauda," feminine of aswad (black), and meaning black bile (melancholia) as opposed ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton

Words linked to "Melancholia" : depression, melancholic