Melancholy Quotes

You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.

— Ovid

I'm so involved in melancholy.

— Isaac Mizrahi

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

— Aristotle

“Her thoughts were like the moon eclipsing the sun.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

— Virginia Woolf

Melancholy is no bad thing.

— Sting

I'm always drawn to melancholy personalities.

— Rene Russo

I liked 'The Darjeeling Limited' very much. There was a melancholy about that film that I liked.

— Alexandre Desplat

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.

— Jonathan Coe

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.

— Karel Capek

Love is a gate that we all must face, for love is our fate. Even the darkness is something we have to…

— Jeremy Limn

Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well.

— Stephen Dillane

“She indulged in melancholy, that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries...”

— Charles Dickens

“Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.”

— Alexandre Dumas

I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.

— Jerome K. Jerome

Despite her cough, Rose was in unusually good spirits. That was irritating. If I’m to trade my life for Rose’s, I’d appreciate…

— Franny Billingsley

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

— Francois Fenelon

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can…

— Oliver Goldsmith

When I write, I tend toward melancholy, and the few times that I've tried pure joy in music, it doesn't really work…

— Michael Stipe

“There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

We are earth's children, and life is the same in sap as in blood; all that the earth, our mother, feels and…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but…

— Lewis Carroll

I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it.

— Sofia Coppola

I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil…

— Dave Grohl

“Altizer distinguishes between melancholy as a condition marked principally by a sense of guilt, even a delirium of guilt, and the contemporary…

— Alina N. Feld

To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful,…

— Thomas Jefferson

There are some people who think that they should be always mourning, that they should put a continual constraint upon themselves, and…

— Francois Fenelon

“He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle…

— James Joyce

“He really had experienced every tiniest increment of time in the four decades since then, and yet here he was surprised to…

— Chris Cleave

“I find only sadness and melancholy when I wade through the past, even when revisiting good memories. The past is gone; I…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth,…

— Robert E. Howard

It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to…

— G. H. Hardy

“Melancholy (1) An excess of black bile, anatomized by Robert Burton, embraced by the swooning Romantics as evidence of their fine sensibilities,…

— Michael Bywater

It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the…

— Charles Baudelaire

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Alas!’ he writes, ‘I am morbid, And have put a purple colour about my brow. All men seem eating and drinking the…

— Austin Osman Spare

Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. In creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative…

— Martin Heidegger

“I thought once how Theocritus had sung Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years, Who each one in a gracious…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“If you tell someone you have depression, they will often say, "Oh, I've been depressed before, too." The difference lies between being…

— Northern Adams