Melancholic Quotes

30 quotes by 30 authors

I think I am pretty much melancholic. — Juliette Binoche
In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors. — John Milton
Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic? — Aristotle
And as I walk round the park I always think, 'Maybe round the corner I am going to find something beautiful.' I always think positively.… — Sophia Loren
Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty. — Kristin Scott Thomas
One wonders why there are so many women who follow Robespierre to his home, to the Jacobins, to the Cordeliers and to the Convention. It… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic. — Michael Haneke
Usually, I'm only sad when something sad happens. I am not a melancholic person. I like to live very much in the present. If I… — Monica Bellucci
The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song… — Nick Cave
The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on the one hand he was… — Laurie Lee
My work has been about making a record of my life that no one can revise. I photograph myself in times of trouble or change… — Nan Goldin
When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same… — Francois Truffaut
In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I… — Moby
I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed. — Anton Corbijn
Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished. — Karl Abraham
I love being on stage. I'm completely, totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming… — Robert Powell
I've always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I'd be looking at the waitress's cracked shoes. — Marian Keyes
The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic. I don't mean… — Keren Ann
I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go. — Criss Jami
Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring… — Tom Hodgkinson

Who Wrote These Melancholic Quotes

30 authors contributed a total of 30 Melancholic Quotes, led by these top contributors: