Combination Quote by Hector Berlioz

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

— Mason Cooley

Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

— Immanuel Kant

Work saves us from melancholy. Pleasure exposes us to it.

— Mason Cooley

“What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I think my cheerfulness keeps my writing from sinking into the depths of melancholy, while the darker side keeps in check any literary silliness…

— David Starkey

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

— Edward Abbey

My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation…

— John Keats

“A desire of desires: the melancholy.”

— Anonymous

I'm very much drawn to melancholy and those kinds of emotions.

— Johan Renck

I like to express true emotions under the cover of melancholy: It includes fulfilment and pain, which describes human existence.

— Volker Bertelmann

Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before…

— Alain de Botton

Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.

— John Ford