Best 381 quotes in «melancholy quotes» category

I find beauty in melancholy.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

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

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

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

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

Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.

Naught so sweet as melancholy.

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

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

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.

Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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 a melancholy that stems from greatness