Best 381 quotes in «melancholy quotes» category

Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy.

Years have passed, I suppose. I'm not really counting them anymore. But I think of this thing often: Perhaps there is a Golden Age someplace, a Renaissance for me sometime, a special time somewhere, somewhere but a ticket, a visa, a diary-page away. I don't know where or when. Who does? Where are all the rains of yesterday? In the invisible city? Inside me? It is cold and quiet outside and the horizon is infinity. There is no sense of movement. There is no moon, and the stars are very bright, like broken diamonds, all.

Yes, melancholy steeps Davidson's language, and melancholy differs from grief in its chronic nature: it is an ache not a wound, it lies deeper down, is longer lasting, is lived with rather than died of.

You hung around the tattered edges of my soul, that's where you preferred to be...

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.

You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't be The familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skin Your head's under water when you learned to swim On a road to hell, congratulations, you're free...

You’re going back?” asked Bod. Things that had been immutable were changing. “You’re really leaving? But. You’re my guardian.” “I was you’re guardian. But you are old enough to guard yourself. I have other things to protect.

All perfection is melancholy.

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.

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.

As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work

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

But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in the most humorous sadness.

Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.

A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

But my favorite part in my body are my dark circles. They define me. They reveal my melancholy.

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

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

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

Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 is the pleasure of being sad.

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.