"It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me."

-- David Guterson

#Melancholy Quotes #Brooding Quotes

“History is a science, no more and no less.”
“Do not think little of any good deed, even if it is just greeting your brother with a smile.”
“I do think that drugs and alcohol have been glorified and exoticized in such a way that it gets into the art world.”
“We don't separate out men and women working together in corporations.”
“It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.”
“The whole of religion has been one uniform curse to the human race.”

Source : Richard Carlile, Olinthus Gregory (1821). “Observations on "Letters to a Friend on the Evidences, Doctrines, and Duties of the Christian Religion by Olinthus Gregory" L.L.D. of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich: In a Letter to the Rev. William Wait”, p.54
“In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must prevail also in a slightly exaggerated form, in his painting, for the sake of truth, harmony and unity.”
“Why did the Lord give use so much quickness unless it was to avoid responsibility?”

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