Best 381 quotes in «melancholy quotes» category

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.

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.

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.

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

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 is the pleasure of being sad.

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

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

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

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

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.

Naught so sweet as melancholy.

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.

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

Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.