Absorption Quote by Walter Benjamin

“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

When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.

— Carl Linnaeus

Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.

— Anonymous

Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

— Immanuel Kant

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

— Italo Calvino

Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.

— Emile M. Cioran

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

We're all connected to melancholy. It's an experience that moves us. And it defines us, the sadness we face it shapes our life journey.

— Jeremy Limn

“The melancholy comes over me, the dismal misery of not knowing where I am, or perhaps losing any sense of who I am, as…

— Simon Armitage

A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always…

— Francoise Sagan

“Altizer distinguishes between melancholy as a condition marked principally by a sense of guilt, even a delirium of guilt, and the contemporary manifestation of…

— Alina N. Feld