Melancholia Quotes

27 quotes by 23 authors

I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia. — David O. Selznick
True values entail suffering. Thatâ€™s the way we think. All in all, we tend to view melancholia as more true. We prefer music and art… — Lars von Trier
Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space… — Graham Swift
You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity. — C.S. Lewis
Melancholia is the beginning and a part of mania. The development of a mania is really a worsening of the disease (melancholia) rather than a… — Aretaeus of Cappadocia
I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of… — M.F.K. Fisher
The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom. It would be… — Quentin Crisp
When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life. — Patricia Kaas
Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small… — Brian Sibley
Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve upon it; refused… — Dale Carnegie
We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time this happens I… — Joan Didion
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness,… — Graham Greene
After 'Melancholia' and 'On the Road,' I wanted to do a comedy. And I did so many comedies when I was younger, but if you're… — Kirsten Dunst
I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we? — Julian Fellowes
the history of melancholia includes all of us. — Charles Bukowski
Toska - noun /ËˆtÅ-skÉ™/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At… — Vladimir Nabokov
From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony.… — Peter Straub
A good deed, "said the prophet Mohammed, "is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another." Why will doing a good… — Dale Carnegie
They faced each other. 'I'm going to enjoy this,'Melancholia said. 'I daresay I'm not. — Derek Landy
He used to say to his melancholia patients: "You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how… — Alfred Adler

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