"Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad." — Victor Hugo
"Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad."
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… — 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… — Alcaeus
- A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of… — 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… — 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