As a boy and even now, I am wont to melancholy. I do, probably once a day, experience a sincere heartbreak. — Jonathan Majors Copy Share Image
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Sometimes I like to write the lyrics while I'm on the road, because then you get even more melancholy. — MO Copy Share Image
“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Hands that never touch. Lips that never meet. The Almost Lovers, never to be.” — Rae Hachton Copy Share Image
I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general. — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this… — Mike White Copy Share Image
Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A lot of 'Blackheart' was me, literally in a dark room, confessing my sins; Poe was the influence for that album. But… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
To the seeker after the new, or the sensational, to those who expect a sinister frisson from modern music, it is my… — Constant Lambert Copy Share Image
Yes, I can be melancholy, but do you think I had Bing Crosby singing 'White Christmas'? I never had nothing. I didn't… — Goldie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“More often than not, I get lost in magical melancholic emotions and thoughts just to get a vacation from the boring realities… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“This is where Mother and I differ greatly. Her advice in the face of melancholy is: 'Think about all the suffering in… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“The truth was that nature had endowed them with a larger share of brains than was common in their circle, and had… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
“And this the world calls frenzy; but the wise Have a far deeper madness, and the glance Of melancholy is a fearful… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“It’s amazing what people create using their pain. Work that is touched by melancholy has its own unique beauty. Even the word… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
“The view which he has given of human life has a melancholy hue, but he feels conscious that he has drawn these… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“There is, following an ample meal, a sort of pause in time, filled with a gentle slackening of thought and energy, when… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“...another comber of far pleasure followed the first, for his books came suddenly before his eyes, row upon row of volumes, row… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou Light divine! Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine! Oft will the body's weakness check… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Now, my dear little girl, you have come to an age when the inward life develops and when some people (and on… — William James Copy Share Image
Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The staying awake was a great self-sacrificaing gesture of friendship, and wonderfully in keeping with our current mood of intense friendship and… — Antal Szerb Copy Share Image
A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding… — Michael Silverblatt Copy Share Image
But my favorite part in my body are my dark circles. They define me. They reveal my melancholy. — Lea Seydoux Copy Share Image
Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption . — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
