Melancholy Quotes

The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy that it would be dangerous, considering their numbers.

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.

There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.

The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.

I'm so involved in melancholy.

A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell

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.

Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.

Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.

For the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life.

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

I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.

I drove in last night,' he said. 'I couldn't sleep, it was too hot. So I went outside. I was feeling melancholy. Then I danced with a beautiful girl, and I felt better. What's your story?

I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't.

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear, who fret to find our bedtime near.

Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.

There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.

The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.

It is impossible that a fish doesn't carry any smell of the sea and a real love, of the melancholy!

There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.

The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.

Kevin Kline gives a master class in acting. He finds every nuance of mirth and melancholy in this wonder of a role and rides it to glory. You can't take your eyes off him.

He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their life is done.

For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so laden with virtues that they never know success in life.

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.

Naught so sweet as melancholy.

The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.

I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it.

For many years I was the youngest among my mathematical friends. It makes me melancholy to realize that I now have become the oldest in most groups of scientists.

A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.

Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well.

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.

I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.

Justice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.

While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.

A melancholy sound is in the air, A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail Around my dwelling. 'Tis the Wind of night.

For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things always strike me as simulacra of luxury items. They seem like fakes.

Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair.

Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

...too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised.