Best 381 quotes in «melancholy quotes» category

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

I am a melancholy type of person.

I find beauty in melancholy.

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

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

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

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

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

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 even great men have their poor relations.

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.

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

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.

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

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.

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.

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.

Naught so sweet as melancholy.

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely 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.

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

Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.

Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy.

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

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.

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

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.