Best 381 quotes in «melancholy quotes» category

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

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

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

Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I find beauty in melancholy.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.