Melancholy Quotes · Page 19

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

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

— Jerome K. Jerome

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn’t point…

— Anonymous

Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.

— Ana Castillo

It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale,…

— Robert Musil

You know that melancholy feeling when you watch the end of a movie and you're crying - but also there is hope?…

— Amber Mark

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

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

The shimmering, lucid tones and silver melancholy of I'll Be Right There give readers a South Korea peopled with citizens fighting for…

— Susan Straight

In 21 years there are a lot of ups and downs. There are melancholy times. There are sad times. There are happy…

— Kenny Chesney

“The old summer's-end melancholy nips at my heels. There's no school to go back to; no detail of my life will change…

— Sara Baume

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

— Emile Durkheim

Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

...that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and…

— Marcel Proust

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

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]

— Christian Nestell Bovee

A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow…

— Francoise Sagan

Sometimes I like to write the lyrics while I'm on the road, because then you get even more melancholy.

— MO

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

— Jane Austen

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.

— Albert Camus

Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it…

— Sarah Vowell

I'm afraid they're in love," he said, concerned. "They don't want to leave you." He lifted one hand from her waist to…

— Laini Taylor

“I feel as if I had been born dead under American bombardment.”

— Stefan Bolea

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

— Sanhita Baruah

There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me - those are some of the things…

— Mahershala Ali