Melancholy Quotes

One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically.

Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.

Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly? Oh! rather, bird, with me Through this fair land rejoice!

In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.

A lot of the time there is a lot of melancholy in the lyrics.

I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.

But fish not with this melancholy bait For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.

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

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

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

There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass

I think my cheerfulness keeps my writing from sinking into the depths of melancholy, while the darker side keeps in check any literary silliness I might be inclined toward.

Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?

I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.

The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?

The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember.

People think I'm really melancholy and romantic and all whispery. I'm not at all. I'm very direct.

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.

I went to bed feeling melancholy, wishing I could have poured out all my fears and insecurities to my mom. Wasn’t that what normal mothers and daughters did?

Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.

Melancholy is no bad thing.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to redeem them

Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.

I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.

You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down

Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.

The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.

A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood.

True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.

Abraham Lincoln was a melancholy man, so he had a dark side that appeals to horror fans.

They say that no one's gonna play this on the radio. They said the melancholy blues were dead and gone. But only songs like these played in minor keys, keep those memories holding on.

I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.

... she indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries.

But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.

Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.

I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn’t point to.

As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon of melancholy.

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

So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.

Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed.

The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause.

All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?

Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.

From Roman times to the present, Italy has been a country to fall in love with - a tribute to all that is enduring, crazy, pagan, joyous, melancholy, at once banal and divine, in the human spirit.

it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.

Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.

All green was anished sae of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue; Sae the green holly with its berries red, And the green moss that o'er the grael spread.