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429 Melancholy quotes by 309 unique authors

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. — Samuel Johnson
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. — Charles Lamb
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing. — Paul McCartney
I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I… — James Otis
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears… — Albert Pike
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are. — Salman Rushdie
Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to… — Dan Savage
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach. — Sydney Smith
Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits. — Susan Sontag
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those… — Baruch Spinoza
I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas… — George Will
This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing… — William Butler Yeats
The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness — Michael Chabon
Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the… — Robert E. Howard
The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the… — Baroness Orczy
Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy. — Virginia Woolf
I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow. — Edgar Allan Poe
You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a… — Vladimir Nabokov
Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some… — Blaise Pascal
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano! — William Shakespeare
For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so laden… — Orhan Pamuk
The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears. — Nora Roberts
The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is… — Edward Gibbon
A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault. — Abraham Lincoln

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