MELANCHOLY in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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2 As my sickness quitted me, I was absorbed by a gloomy and black melancholy that nothing could dissipate.
3 Thus Elizabeth endeavoured to divert her thoughts and mine from all reflection upon melancholy subjects.
4 I threw myself into the chaise that was to convey me away and indulged in the most melancholy reflections.
5 Uttering a few sounds with an air of melancholy, he took the pail from her head and bore it to the cottage himself.
6 Melancholy followed, but by degrees I gained a clear conception of my miseries and situation and was then released from my prison.
7 Their melancholy is soothing, and their joy elevating, to a degree I never experienced in studying the authors of any other country.
8 But he is generally melancholy and despairing, and sometimes he gnashes his teeth, as if impatient of the weight of woes that oppresses him.
9 My father was in the meantime overjoyed and in the bustle of preparation only recognized in the melancholy of his niece the diffidence of a bride.
10 The old man, I could perceive, often endeavoured to encourage his children, as sometimes I found that he called them, to cast off their melancholy.
11 But on the day that was to fulfil my wishes and my destiny, she was melancholy, and a presentiment of evil pervaded her; and perhaps also she thought of the dreadful secret which I had promised to reveal to her on the following day.
12 My father saw this change with pleasure, and he turned his thoughts towards the best method of eradicating the remains of my melancholy, which every now and then would return by fits, and with a devouring blackness overcast the approaching sunshine.
13 After so long a period of an absorbing melancholy that resembled madness in its intensity and effects, he was glad to find that I was capable of taking pleasure in the idea of such a journey, and he hoped that change of scene and varied amusement would, before my return, have restored me entirely to myself.
14 I looked on the valley beneath; vast mists were rising from the rivers which ran through it and curling in thick wreaths around the opposite mountains, whose summits were hid in the uniform clouds, while rain poured from the dark sky and added to the melancholy impression I received from the objects around me.