History Quote by Charles Bukowski

I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.

— Charles Bukowski

I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we?

— Julian Fellowes

“I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the…

— Osamu Dazai

“Spanish rain, A maiden’s dress, Apothecary pills And ancient thrills; Melancholy kills A girl’s caress. (—Roman Payne; Valencia, Spain, November 2nd 2012)”

— Roman Payne

“And I want to play hide-and-seek and give you my clothes and tell you I like your shoes and sit on the steps while…

— Sarah Kane

Melancholia for Freud is the relationship that the subject takes up with respect to itself from the position of what he calls conscience or…

— Simon Critchley

“Melancholia is, I believe, a musical problem: a dissonance, a change in rhythm. While on the outside everything happens with the vertiginous rhythm of…

— Alejandra Pizarnik

We've never changed for anybody I think that the whole of the first world, it's suffering is very self-indulgent, there's no real reason to…

— Richey Edwards

“Let’s call my mood melancholy; let’s call it remembrance. Or maybe let’s call it longing. Yes, let’s call it longing instead.”

— Shannon Celebi

I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part…

— Patricia Kaas

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer…

— Edward Abbey

“How she listened, the first time, to the sonorous lamentations of romantic melancholia echoing out across heaven and earth! If her childhood had been…

— Gustave Flaubert