Melancholy Quotes

429 quotes by 317 authors

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. — Amelia Barr
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. — Charles Baudelaire
Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it may be blasphemy… — Annie Besant
The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument. — Ritchie Blackmore
In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy. — Daniel Boone
I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general. — Sandra Bullock
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking. — Alcaeus
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us… — Maurice Chevalier
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. — Duke of Wellington
Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting… — George Eliot
The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. — Jean Rhys
Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality. — Cyril Connolly
Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid. — Alexander Smith
To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy. — Andre Gide
The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet. — Maurice Maeterlinck
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit. — Ben Jonson
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 is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there… — Alexander McQueen
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them. — Samuel Johnson
In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors. — John Milton

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