Quotes and Sayings About Melancholy

A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Faults #Melancholy #Misfortunes

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
-- Albert Camus

#Melancholy

Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
-- Alexander Smith

#Coffins #Reputation #Melancholy

Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.
-- Ana Castillo

#Mexico #Melancholy #Embrace

There is a melancholy which accompanies all enthusiasm.
-- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

#Enthusiasm #Melancholy #Accompany

There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.
-- Aphex Twin

#Track #Melancholy

I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.
-- Arielle Dombasle

#Taste #Kind #Melancholy

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
-- Aristotle

#Men #Melancholy #Great Men

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

#Worry #Trying #Melancholy

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.
-- Arthur Golden

#Kind #Painful #Melancholy

There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.
-- Audrey Niffenegger

#Hallucinations #Wilderness #Melancholy

True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
-- Ben Jonson

#Perfect #Melancholy #Fine

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

#Melancholy #Interest #Persons

As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work
-- Charles Baudelaire

#Poverty #Sickness #Melancholy

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
-- Charles Baudelaire

#Literature #Melancholy #Type

There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass
-- Charles Kuralt

#Wind #Sorrow #Melancholy

Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]
-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Gratitude #Melancholy #Worst

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

#Pain #Character #Melancholy

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 Lambert

#Taken #Bombs #Melancholy

In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
-- Daniel Boone

#Diversity #Impossible #Melancholy

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.
-- David Guterson

#Cities #Needs #Melancholy

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.
-- David Guterson

#Melancholy #Brooding

So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.
-- Dodie Smith

#England #Melancholy

...that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseperable from the perfection of the beautiful.
-- Edgar Allan Poe

#Beautiful #Perfection #Melancholy

I fell in love with melancholy
-- Edgar Allan Poe

#Melancholy

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
-- Edgar Allan Poe

#Atmosphere #Sorrow #Melancholy

Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
-- Emile M. Cioran

#End Of The World #Melancholy #Ends

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
-- Francis Beaumont

#Sweet #Lovely #Melancholy

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

#Funny Things #Wonderful #Melancholy

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
-- George Saintsbury

#Melancholy #Century