"The Anatomy of Melancholy" Quotes

Melancholy, the daughter of idleness and love, the mother of cowardice and inconstancy.

Love is nothing else but a madnesse, a burning fever, a hot ague.

There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness.

Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

The definition of love is the desire of union with the thing beloved.

Melancholy... is a kind of dotage, a disease of the mind, sorrow, discontent, madness.

Love is blind, and madness leads it by the hand.

Melancholy is a labyrinth, wherein the devil is to be found.

Love is a kind of warfare.

Melancholy is the source of many diseases.