Inspirational Quote by James Boswell

Melancholy is not one of my emotions. Quite seriously, I don't do melancholy. It's a miserable way to be.

— Walter Mischel

Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.

— Robert Burton

Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away to make themselves sadder, or to weep beside a…

— Gustave Flaubert

Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Melancholy is an intimate aspect of human nature, while depression, like any other illness, creates fear and perplexity. Melancholy can displayed, depression is usually…

— Karin Johannisson

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

— Victor Hugo

If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet…

— Leigh Hunt

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

— Italo Calvino

Melancholy is no bad thing.

— Sting

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.

— Sandra Bullock

Improve every opportunity to be melancholy.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Melancholy isn’t always a disorder that needs to be cured. It can be a species of intelligent grief which arises when we come face-to-face…

— Alain de Botton