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Melancholy Quotes by Robert Burton
- Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.
- Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe,…
- If there be a hell upon earth it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart
More Melancholy Quotes
- All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. — Amelia Barr
- I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. — Charles Baudelaire
- Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it… — Annie Besant
- The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument. — Ritchie Blackmore
- In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy. — Daniel Boone
- I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general. — Sandra Bullock
- To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the… — Alcaeus
- A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it… — Maurice Chevalier
- Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. — Duke of Wellington
- Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The… — George Eliot
- The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. — Jean Rhys
- Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality. — Cyril Connolly