Best Melancholy Quotations

429 Melancholy quotes by 309 unique authors

A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy. — Stephan Jenkins
The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism. — Vincent Van Gogh
When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins. — Carl Linnaeus
Melancholy is not one of my emotions. Quite seriously, I don't do melancholy. It's a miserable way to be. — Walter Mischel
There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy. — Audrey Niffenegger
Industry is the enemy of melancholy — William F. Buckley, Jr.
There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass — Charles Kuralt
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to… — G. H. Hardy
The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this demon out, it’s… — Florence Welch
It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than… — James Payn
A lot of the time there is a lot of melancholy in the lyrics. — Will Champion
Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there. — Ismail Merchant
But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy. — George Saintsbury
As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon… — Darcey Steinke
Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to have been so… — Jerry Saltz
Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a dangerous ledge off… — Celia Thaxter
I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and… — May Sarton
Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one of the dearest… — George Santayana
America, the Idea of: We yearned for its beer and jazz, its smoke-filled nightclubs, its Edward Hopper bars, the melancholy of rainy Manhattan Gershwin nights...… — Michael Bywater
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po. — Oliver Goldsmith
Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to barbarous or civilized… — William Wilberforce
I am sometimes accused by my peers of printing my pictures too dark. All I can say is that it goes with the mood of… — Don McCullin
A pretext-not a cause-is sufficient for us to enter the "solitary situation", the situation of the dreaming solitude. In this solitude, memories arrange themselves in… — Gaston Bachelard
Be cheerful in all that you do. Live joyfully. Live happily. Live enthusiastically, knowing that God does not dwell in gloom and melancholy, but in… — Ezra Taft Benson
Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place. — William Wordsworth

Who Wrote These Melancholy Quotes

309 authors contributed a total of 429 Melancholy Quotes, led by these top contributors:

Best Melancholy Quotations

More Ways to Read Melancholy Quotes

Who Wrote These Melancholy Quotes