Best 381 quotes in «melancholy quotes» category

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

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

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.

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

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.

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

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

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.

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

Naught so sweet as melancholy.

Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.

The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.

The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this demon out, it’s so visceral because the melancholy has to be drummed out. I can’t let it sit inside me.

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

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness

There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.

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

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.

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

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

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.

This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness

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.

To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an almost morbid melancholy.

What e'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.

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

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.

Who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances, far better by comparing them as conscientiously as we can with other varieties of melancholy, happiness, and trance, than by refusing to consider their place in any more general series, and treating them as if they were outside of nature's order altogether?

When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.

After much effort to live up to a glorious standard there came fatigue, wan hope, and boredom. I experienced extreme boredom. I saw others experiencing it too, many denying, by the way, that any such thing existed. And finally I decided that I would make boredom my subject matter. That I'd study it. That I'd become the world's leading authority on it. March, that was a red-letter day for humanity. What a field! What a domain! Titanic! Promethean! I trembled before it. I was inspired. I couldn't sleep. Ideas came in the night and I wrote them down, volumes of them. Strange that no one had gone after this systematically. Oh, melancholy, yes, but not modern boredom.

A great melancholy was hanging in the air, giving their love a more languid, more tender feeling. It was like the love one feels before a separation, it was like love in a country where there is a war, in a town where epidemics are raging. A strong love, from feeling close to death. Here death reigned, it was as if the town were the Museum of Death. ("The Dead Town")

A happy clown inside spat out a pig-in-a-blanket and yelled at the cute waitress holding the tray. … I had to throw up but other than the banker’s suit forcing its way onto Elise’s face there really wasn’t an appropriate place for it.

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.