Melancholy Quotes

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me.

Be cheerful in all that you do. Live joyfully. Live happily. Live enthusiastically, knowing that God does not dwell in gloom and melancholy, but in light and love.

No grief so soft, no pain so sweet, as love's delicious melancholy.

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only melancholy; O sweetest melancholy!

Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.

Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy.

While you are upon earth, enjoy the good things that are here (to that end were they given), and be not melancholy, and wish yourself in heaven.

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.

There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.

London, with its monotonous and melancholy houses, seems like an inharmonious patchwork, as if pieced together without design. Yet it is lovable in its sprawling confusion.

In 21 years there are a lot of ups and downs. There are melancholy times. There are sad times. There are happy times. There are unsure times. There are life lessons.

If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

All perfection is melancholy.

There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.

If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair In other's arms breathe out the tender tale

Have we not huddled in bunkers, while some premonition of tomorrow hung in the air and a comrade started singing? Oh, it felt so melancholy! And it was kitsch.

Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.

And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy.

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.

Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.

There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.

I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.

I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out.

The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.

There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.

That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.

Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.

I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise.

The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.

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.

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.

Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]

At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.

As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.

I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial, but if ever I should, it will be then known how far I can reduce to practice, principles, which I know to be founded in truth.

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander in that golden maze.

In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.

I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy