quotes about Melancholy
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A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
-- Albert Camus -
Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
-- Alexander SmithSource : Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.21
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Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.
-- Ana CastilloSource : Norma Alarcón, Ana Castillo, Cherríe Moraga (1989). “Third Woman”
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There is a melancholy which accompanies all enthusiasm.
-- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury -
There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.
-- Aphex TwinSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.
-- Arielle DombasleSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
-- Aristotle -
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The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
-- Arnold Bennett -
At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.
-- Arthur Golden -
There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.
-- Audrey Niffenegger -
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When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
-- Carl Linnaeus -
As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work
-- Charles Baudelaire -
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass
-- Charles Kuralt -
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Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both.
-- Colin Farrell -
To the seeker after the new, or the sensational, to those who expect a sinister frisson from modern music, it is my melancholy duty to point out that all the bomb throwing and guillotining has already taken place.
-- Constant LambertSource : "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert , "The Revolutionary Situation", p. 32, 1934.
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In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
-- Daniel Boone -
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Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.
-- David Guterson -
It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.
-- David Guterson -
So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.
-- Dodie Smith -
...that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseperable from the perfection of the beautiful.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
-- Emile M. Cioran -
Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
-- Francis BeaumontSource : Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1750). “The Works of Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher: The two noble kinsmen; Thierry and Theodoret; The woman-hater; The nice valour; The honest man's fortune; A masque; Four plays or moral representations in one”, p.336
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When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.
-- Francois Truffaut -
But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
-- George SaintsburySource : George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.162, tredition
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Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
-- George Santayana -
Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.
-- Gunter GrassSource : "From The Diary Of A Snail (On Stasis and Progress)". Book by Gunter Grass, 1972.
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To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an almost morbid melancholy.
-- Hector BerliozSource : Hector Berlioz (1935). “Memoirs of Hector Berlioz from 1803 to 1865: comprising his travels in Germany, Italy, Russia, and England”
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A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.
-- Herman Melville -
The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.
-- Horace -
He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.
-- Horace Walpole -
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You can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it.
-- Isaac Mizrahi -
Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.
-- Italo Calvino -
I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.
-- Jamaica Kincaid -
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Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.
-- James BoswellSource : James Boswell, Mark Harris (1981). “The heart of Boswell: six journals in one volume”, McGraw-Hill Companies
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Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.
-- Jean Rhys -
She was not crying Which surprised me very much But I understand now That she had found places For her melancholy That were behind more masks Than only her eyes
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
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There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.
-- Josh Radnor -
Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
-- Karel CapekSource : "Karel Čapek: Life and Work". Book by Ivan Klima, 2002.
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Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.
-- Leigh Hunt -
Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.
-- Leigh Hunt -
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All perfection is melancholy.
-- Margaret OliphantSource : Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.3695, Delphi Classics
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The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
-- Maurice MaeterlinckSource : Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Treasure of the Humble: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.36, 谷月社
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I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.
-- Michael Haneke -
To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective; it reminds you to feel.
-- Mick FleetwoodSource : FaceBook post by Mick Fleetwood from Oct 06, 2015
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And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.
-- Mircea Eliade -
A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.
-- Paul Tsongas -
You can’t take back texts. If you come off all moody and melancholy in a text, it just sits there in your phone, reminding you of what a drag you are.
-- Rainbow Rowell -
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The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
-- Ritchie Blackmore -
Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.
-- Robert Burton -
Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.
-- Scott TurowSource : Scott Turow (2002). “Reversible Errors: A Novel”, p.243, Macmillan
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Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
-- Sydney Smith -
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There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.
-- Thomas Hood -
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The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.
-- Vincent Van Gogh -
A lot of the time there is a lot of melancholy in the lyrics.
-- Will Champion -
Industry is the enemy of melancholy
-- William F. Buckley, Jr. -
Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.
-- William Shakespeare -
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There's a whole kind of melancholy that you can only attain with reverb. That's an example of a technology introducing a whole new meaning.
-- Stephin Merritt -
I like to express true emotions under the cover of melancholy: It includes fulfilment and pain, which describes human existence.
-- Volker Bertelmann -
As a bit of loner, prone to melancholy, with a questionable sexuality, I found great solace in the words of-Dylan, Joni, John Prine and Leonard Cohen. The darker the better.
-- Jill SobuleSource : Source: therumpus.net
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I was not always free from melancholy; but even melancholy had its charms.
-- Madame Roland -