Melancholy Quotes · Page 18

“created that melancholy of mind which accorded but too well with the religious gloom surrounding him.”

— Matthew Lewis

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

— Emile M. Cioran

There's definitely sadness happening in this band. I get melancholy every day about things.

— Charlotte Caffey

“Mine was the sort of heart that had to overcome melancholy and free itself from many depressing weights.”

— Saul Bellow

For me, comic scores always have to have some melancholy in the background.

— Alexandre Desplat

I have a tremendous battle with melancholy and depression.

— Sebastian Faulks

I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise.

— William Shakespeare

“There is nothing more melancholy than empty festive places.”

— Susan Orlean

“The wind I hear it sighing, with autumn's saddest sound; withered leaves all thick are lying, as spring-flowers on the ground. This…

— Emily Brontë

Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in…

— Walter Benjamin

“A hand-rolled cigarette to smoke, Another one bought from the store. If he lights one, his mind's lit up Another one burns…

— Sanhita Baruah

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that…

— Julia Ward Howe

“We [of Thelema] are whole-hearted extroverts; the penalty of restricting one self is anything from neurosis to down right lunacy; in particular,…

— Aleister Crowley

Dance music-as I keep saying, you can dance to a windshield wiper... a windshield wiper that's fairly steady gives you a beat…

— Artie Shaw

“For the philosopher is right who says that nothing is thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy”

— Virginia Woolf

If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times,…

— Leigh Hunt

As the romance of manned space exploration has waned, the drive today is to find our living, thinking counterparts in the universe.…

— Charles Krauthammer

I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is…

— Voltaire

“He had done nothing on Christmas day, just wandered around outside in the frozen woods. Hard ground, chill winds and bare branches…

— R.D. Ronald

It is a melancholy but an undoubted fact, that, even in the most thriving countries, part of the population annually dies of…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

“They danced slow circles in the sand, Javier singing the words to the Spanish version of the song, the melancholy music putting…

— Pamela Clare

Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an…

— Horace Mann

There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and…

— Josh Radnor

“Whenever she was asked to play something, this piece was the one she most often chose. “Le mal du pays.” The groundless…

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Walter Mischel

“The bar was stuffy and melancholy. It was full of the sadness inherent in all deracinated things.”

— Paul Bowles

Some days you'll feel sad without knowing why. Like you lost something very precious but forgot what it was, or like you…

— Anonymous

“This was a characteroloical prelude, but it wasn’t chemical or somatic. It was the anatomy of melancholy, not the anatomy of his…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“I’ve always been a fan of the melancholy, like Morrissey. I grew up playing classical nocturnes like Chopin and Debussy on piano,…

— Blake Lewis

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

— Thomas E. Mann

Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

— Arthur Helps

I have only one thing to say to the melancholy man: 'Look into the distance.' ... When you look at the stars…

— Emile Chartier

“Kad bi se svi ljudi ugušili u pismima umrlih roditelja i predaka, nikad ne bismo uspeli da živimo sopstvene živote.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“Even when it seems that there is no one else, always remember there's one person who never ceased to love you -…

— Sanhita Baruah

For many years I was the youngest among my mathematical friends. It makes me melancholy to realize that I now have become…

— Stanislaw Ulam

Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people…

— Emile Zola

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

— Miguel de Cervantes

Oftentimes, especially in the context of an acoustic song, I'm motivated to write by some amount of melancholy.

— Chris Cornell

Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for…

— Pierre Charron

[Prozac] didn't seem to have any effect whatsoever on my melancholy, my dark vision, and everything else that I'd taken it for.

— Leonard Cohen