Melancholy Quotes · Page 8

“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

Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away to make themselves sadder, or to weep…

— Gustave Flaubert

If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair…

— Robert Burns

The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so…

— Beaumont Newhall

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

— Miguel de Cervantes

“Melancholia is, I believe, a musical problem: a dissonance, a change in rhythm. While on the outside everything happens with the vertiginous…

— Alejandra Pizarnik

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

— Chris Cleave

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

— Arthur Helps

“A mist is rolling over the fields. Why is a summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?”

— Dodie Smith

“I loved him the way some people are to be loved - from a distance.”

— Sanhita Baruah

There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass

— Charles Kuralt

A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood.

— Ben H. Winters

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a…

— Franz Grillparzer

“Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy.”

— Bohumil Hrabal

There's a whole kind of melancholy that you can only attain with reverb. That's an example of a technology introducing a whole…

— Stephin Merritt

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

— Virginia Woolf

Light is the dark in one, but most people fear the darkness.

— Jeremy Limn

Your melancholy. Or depression. Along with nine-tenths of the afflictions I've studied, diagnosed, attempted to treat. Call them whatever you like, but…

— Andrew Pyper

My curiosity, alas, is not the kind that can be satisfied by objective knowledge. Plato said that opinion is worthless and that…

— Hayden Carruth

Awkwardness is where tension is, and tension is where the story is. It's also where the comedy is, which I'm interested in;…

— Lorrie Moore

What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I…

— Nick Hornby

Hangovers are a vivid form of vengeance. Last night my apartment became the venue for a small, introverted chardonnay festival. A melancholy…

— Liz Jensen

“Dogs were generally incompatible with melancholy.”

— John Connolly

“I see life as a roadside inn where I have to stay until the coach from the abyss pulls up. I don’t…

— Fernando Pessoa