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429 Melancholy quotes by 309 unique authors

I am a melancholy type of person. — Alexander McQueen
The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's. — Jonathan Coe
It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me. — David Guterson
Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need. — David Guterson
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character. — Peter Ackroyd
Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human… — Colin Farrell
I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me. — Charlie Hunnam
It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it.… — Norah Jones
There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks. — Aphex Twin
I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal. — Townes Van Zandt
All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an… — Emile M. Cioran
I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind… — Alexander McQueen
I think there has to be an underlying sexuality. There has to be a perverseness to the clothes. There is a hidden agenda in the… — Alexander McQueen
Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well. — Stephen Dillane
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and… — Willard Gaylin
I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love. — Arielle Dombasle
Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The first cuckoo's melancholy cry. — William Wordsworth
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste. — William C. Bryant
That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb… — William C. Bryant
I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red...… — Edvard Munch
And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song. — John Milton
Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch. — Thomas Paine
What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me in this parenthesis;… — Sylvia Plath

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