Melancholy Quotes
Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?
Melancholy is kind of sweet sometimes, I think. It's not a negative thing. It's not a mean thing. It's just something that happens in life, like autumn.
Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end...
Hence, loathèd Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy.
I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.
Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.
I like to express true emotions under the cover of melancholy: It includes fulfilment and pain, which describes human existence.
The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.
I think perhaps it is a generational thing. I talk to younger people and they say, Where is this melancholy city you talk about My Istanbul is a sunny place.
I, too, am going to go away soon,' she says, 'I am weary and weary of my weariness. Everything is beginning to be a little empty and full of leave-taking and melancholy and waiting.
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief
I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work
The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.
I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and is always thrilling.
They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.
When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.
The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway.
It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.
A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like homemade bread.
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
