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429 Melancholy quotes by 309 unique authors

Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it. — Emile M. Cioran
I fell in love with melancholy — Edgar Allan Poe
I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes… — Gunter Grass
A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like… — Leonardo Sciascia
While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of… — William Butler Yeats
A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood. — Ben H. Winters
A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life. — Paul Tsongas
When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain… — William James
How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with a… — Duane Michals
I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it. — Josh Billings
There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged an attack. As… — Vasily Grossman
Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of… — Alexis Carrel
Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety; old crotchets and most sweet closes. It shall be… — John Marston
A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding its resonance and… — Michael Silverblatt
Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment – and… — Dmitri Shostakovich
From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned and stood motionless,… — William Peter Blatty
There is a general place in your brain, I think, reserved for melancholy of relationships past. It grows and prospers as life progresses, forcing you… — Kary Mullis
The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic, stretching… — Rose Macaulay
I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety,… — Frederic Chopin
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
It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same… — Alexander McQueen
I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions. — Chantal Kreviazuk
Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story… — Anthony Trollope
There is a melancholy that stems from greatness — Nicolas Chamfort
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher. — Rutherford B. Hayes

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