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429 Melancholy quotes by 309 unique authors

Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness. — John Milton
...too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy. — William Shakespeare
In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with… — Victor Hugo
Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him from… — FÃ©lix J. Palma
The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or… — Walter Bagehot
As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work — Charles Baudelaire
They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy. — James Russell Lowell
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old… — Bela Bartok
To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think I… — Mick Fleetwood
Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this… — Antonio Tabucchi
There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still. — Henry David Thoreau
With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land of Steady Habits… — Maggie Shipstead
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
I think perhaps it is a generational thing. I talk to younger people and they say, Where is this melancholy city you talk about My… — Orhan Pamuk
All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time,… — Victor Hugo
The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in order to recover,… — Marsilio Ficino
I find beauty in melancholy. — Alexander McQueen
For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that's… — Vincent Van Gogh
One ought to avoid all unnecessary worry and exciting thoughts, and to cultivate a firm tranquility of mind. Melancholy reflections will in no way influence… — George Hackenschmidt
Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that endears life, but… — Mary Wollstonecraft
As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we… — Victor Hugo
A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell — J.R.R. Tolkien
Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself. — Emile M. Cioran
My curiosity, alas, is not the kind that can be satisfied by objective knowledge. Plato said that opinion is worthless and that only knowledge counts,… — Hayden Carruth

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