Being sad Quote by Victor Hugo

Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

— Victor Hugo

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

— Mason Cooley

“Fear and excitement are chemically the same. Sadness is a hair away from melancholy. Melancholy is almost pleasure, brushing against happiness. It’s all the…

— Catherine Hanrahan

“Depression is not sadness, not even a state of mind, it is a (neuro)philosophical (dis)position. Beyond Pop’s bipolar oscillation between evanescent thrill and frustrated…

— Anonymous

As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune…Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression…

— Victor Hugo

In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves…

— Victor Hugo

Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

— Victor Hugo

“A great melancholy was hanging in the air, giving their love a more languid, more tender feeling. It was like the love one feels…

— Georges Rodenbach

“I’ve always been a fan of the melancholy, like Morrissey. I grew up playing classical nocturnes like Chopin and Debussy on piano, so I…

— Blake Lewis

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of…

— Gunter Grass

“He presses two fingers against each eye and attempts to account for this crippling melancholy, but is having trouble with rational thought. It feels…

— David Nicholls