Best 381 quotes in «melancholy quotes» category

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

Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief

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.

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.

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.

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

I find beauty in melancholy.

For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that's to say, pleasure in other things stops immediately and I become melancholy if I can't get on with the work.

I am a melancholy type of person.

I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.

I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

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

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

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.

I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and is always thrilling.

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

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

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

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

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

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.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

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.

It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with me.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

I was not always free from melancholy; but even melancholy had its charms.

Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better.

Melancholy is not one of my emotions. Quite seriously, I don't do melancholy. It's a miserable way to be.

Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.

Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it may be blasphemy to say so, he and his 'Lamentations' are really not worth reading.

Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

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

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

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

Naught so sweet as melancholy.

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life.

Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.

Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.

Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy.

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

The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.

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

Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.