Melancholy Quotes · Page 15

There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.

— Mathieu Amalric

I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.

— Edwidge Danticat

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

— Tim Winton

[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

“When I was young and filled with folly, I fell in love with melancholy”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Melancholy can be seductive when it’s twined with self-pity.”

— Dean Koontz

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

— David Guterson

I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.

— Josh Billings

I went to bed feeling melancholy, wishing I could have poured out all my fears and insecurities to my mom. Wasn’t that…

— Richelle Mead

Ah, there are moments for us here, when, seeing Life's inequalities, and woe, and care, The burdens laid upon our mortal being…

— Phoebe Cary

“Often it feels like I am breathing today only because a few years back I had no idea which nerve to cut...”

— Sanhita Baruah

In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.

— John Milton

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he…

— Blaise Pascal

Wiping away these invisible tears that have been hiding behind this smile for all of these years everything that you've known about…

— Anonymous

“I am a lonely man,' Sensei said. 'And so I am glad that you come to see me. But I am also…

— Natsume Sōseki

While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk,…

— Bear McCreary

Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages… Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent,…

— Charles Baudelaire

Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild…

— Dmitri Shostakovich

“Cyrano: The leaves--- Roxane: What color---Perfect Venetian red! Look at them fall. Cyrano: Yes---they know how to die. A little way From…

— Edmond Rostand

I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It…

— Hans Christian Andersen

“Poor little place,' he murmured with a sigh. She heard him. He said the most melancholy things, but she noticed that directly…

— Virginia Woolf

Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize…

— Emile Durkheim

“How I used to love the dark, sad evenings of late autumn and winter, how eagerly I imbibed their moods of loneliness…

— Hermann Hesse

And what does the rain say at night in a small town, what does the rain have to say? Who walks beneath…

— Jack Kerouac

You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that…

— Patrick O'Brian

“The Last Leaf I saw him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their…

— Christopher Isherwood

There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged…

— Vasily Grossman

“After much effort to live up to a glorious standard there came fatigue, wan hope, and boredom. I experienced extreme boredom. I…

— Saul Bellow

“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

As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Edgar Allan Poe

There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.

— Michel De Montaigne

So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.

— Dodie Smith

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

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.”

— Amit Kalantri

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

— John Milton

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

— Ismail Merchant