Melancholy Quotes · Page 17

“Melancholy is to know the beauty of life, and to know it must end.”

— Alex Miller

The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness

— Michael Chabon

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

— David Hume

“The biggest problem with melancholy is that it is more detailed than the world.”

— Lisa Robertson

“I can’t help but think about the concept of loneliness, of having no one – how tangible melancholy is.”

— Carol Mason

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

— George Saintsbury

A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.

— Paul Tsongas

“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom…

— Arnold Bennett

To the seeker after the new, or the sensational, to those who expect a sinister frisson from modern music, it is my…

— Constant Lambert

Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A lot of 'Blackheart' was me, literally in a dark room, confessing my sins; Poe was the influence for that album. But…

— Dawn Richard

Yes, I can be melancholy, but do you think I had Bing Crosby singing 'White Christmas'? I never had nothing. I didn't…

— Goldie

I'm not a big fan of Christmas, and I think there are a lot of people who feel a bit melancholy at…

— Michael Ball

Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this…

— Mike White

There's a book that's critical to understanding anxiety, a 17th-century book, 'The Anatomy of Melancholy,' by Robert Burton. I wanted to write…

— Scott Stossel

I can remember, with unsteady feet, Tottering from room to room, and finding pleasure In flowers, and toys, and sweetmeats, things which…

— Robert Southey

A pretext-not a cause-is sufficient for us to enter the "solitary situation", the situation of the dreaming solitude. In this solitude, memories…

— Gaston Bachelard

The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling — a somehow melancholy feeling. He was outside; he passed on…

— Stephen King

I wasn't born in New York and I may never live there again, and just thinking about it makes me melancholy, but…

— Anonymous

“And what the music elicits—in me, in most everyone who hears it and takes to it—is a strangely comforting, sensual melancholy, a…

— William Todd Schultz

“The view which he has given of human life has a melancholy hue, but he feels conscious that he has drawn these…

— Thomas Malthus

To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and…

— Mick Fleetwood

“The truth was that nature had endowed them with a larger share of brains than was common in their circle, and had…

— George Gissing

To fall for," "to be fallen for"--I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent.…

— Osamu Dazai

“Books. They live their own life in melancholy Happy in their crispy destruction under yellowish tinge.”

— Raj Doctor

I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.

— Samuel Johnson

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

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

— Emile M. Cioran

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

— Alexandre Desplat

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

— Susan Orlean

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

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

— Paul Bowles

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

— Walter Mischel

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

— Matthew Lewis

“Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.”

— Arthur Wellesley Wellington

“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