Melancholy Quotes

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And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.

Come, let us give a little time to folly... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.

I'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that's mellow, though.

I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place.

I fell in love with melancholy

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.

And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.

A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with me.

I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.

I find beauty in melancholy.

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land.

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.

I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they turn what had been a dream into a public nuisance.

I'd like to combine melancholy and sunshine... There's a sadness in Provence which no one has expressed... I'd like to put reason in the grass and tears in the sky, like Poussin.

I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.

Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an almost morbid melancholy.

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

But my favorite part in my body are my dark circles. They define me. They reveal my melancholy.

Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.

Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.

Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.

What e'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.

Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are the true sources of superstition. Hope, pride, presumption, a warm indignation, together with ignorance, are the true sources of enthusiasm.

Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying of the year and mystery as well.