Melancholy Quotes · Page 9

“A desire of desires: the melancholy.”

— Anonymous

Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.

— John Milton

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

— Edwidge Danticat

“It was a melancholy day indeed when the sister of solitude was Sunday's silver lining.”

— Alethea Kontis

It is impossible that a fish doesn't carry any smell of the sea and a real love, of the melancholy!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

— Mathieu Amalric

“You hung around the tattered edges of my soul, that's where you preferred to be...”

— Jaeda DeWalt

If you observe, all classic love songs have a tinge of melancholy that comes naturally with the composition.

— Vidyasagar

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

— Josh Billings

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

— David Guterson

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass…

— Gunter Grass

There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad…

— William Shakespeare

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must…

— Anatole France

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't…

— Philip Larkin

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.

— William C. Bryant

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

— Mahershala Ali

“And that's the bottom layer in old boxes: melancholy, an indefinable sense of loss. You dig around and it comes swirling up…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It…

— Franz Kafka

“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“There was this constant urge in me to tear my insides apart, I didn't know why. By the time I made my…

— Sanhita Baruah

“On a certain day in the blue-moon month of September Beneath a young plum tree, quietly I held her there, my quiet,…

— Bertolt Brecht

“What shall I do, today? Visit the pub? Sit down in a garden with a book? A bird flies past. Where is…

— Omar Khayyám

We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states…

— Octavio Paz

Haiti is the best cure against melancholy; it is also the most creative place for me to be. My productivity has increased…

— Jørgen Leth

I wanted to work with Barry [ Jenkins]. I am a big fan of his from Medicine for Melancholy years ago. Tarrell…

— Andre Holland

I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me;…

— Frederic Chopin

Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The…

— George Eliot

“creeping fear of madness often accompanies depression. Sufferers wonder if their black moods will ever lift, or if their feelings of alienation…

— Joshua Wolf Shenk

The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and…

— Emily Bronte

I am no longer a divine biped. I am no longer the freest German after Goethe, as Ruge named me in healthier…

— Heinrich Heine

These pages reproduce me very imperfectly, and there are many things in me of which I find no trace in them.I suppose…

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Congratulations," he said, his voice dry. "You finally managed to find a woman as tragically noble as yourself. I didn't think one…

— Ilona Andrews

We will enjoy ourselves with the forms that are given us: a human face, a hand, the breast of a woman or…

— Max Beckmann

“What is it that wells up so suddenly and menacingly under my heart, swallowing the soft air of melancholy? Are you pleased…

— Novalis

There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.

— Michel de Montaigne

“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.”

— Criss Jami

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

— MO

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both…

— Charles Dickens

The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

— Anonymous