Melancholy Quotes

Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life.

Improve every opportunity to be melancholy.

I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.

Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both.

When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.

There is a melancholy which accompanies all enthusiasm.

There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.

It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.

The lost glove is happy.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.

Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.

Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer.

One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy. Drowning in that water is as sweet as rising.

Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.

Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.

Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.

Diabetes is caused by melancholy.

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better.

Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.

All my films have always been released in the autumn, maybe because they're more melancholy to people.

Melancholy is not one of my emotions. Quite seriously, I don't do melancholy. It's a miserable way to be.

Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.

This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.

I was a very devout boy and one day I heard the music of an Egyptian Koran singer in the mosque. The melancholy of this music touched me so deeply that it brought me to tears.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.

Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.

I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.

I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.

Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.

I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out.

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.