Melancholy famous quotes

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

#Faults #Melancholy #Misfortunes

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
-- Albert Camus

#Melancholy

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

#Coffins #Reputation #Melancholy

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

#Mexico #Melancholy #Embrace

There is a melancholy which accompanies all enthusiasm.
-- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

#Enthusiasm #Melancholy #Accompany

There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.
-- Aphex Twin

#Track #Melancholy

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

#Taste #Kind #Melancholy

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
-- Aristotle

#Men #Melancholy #Great Men

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
-- Arnold Bennett

#Worry #Trying #Melancholy

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.
-- Arthur Golden

#Kind #Painful #Melancholy

There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.
-- Audrey Niffenegger

#Hallucinations #Wilderness #Melancholy

True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
-- Ben Jonson

#Perfect #Melancholy #Fine

When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
-- Carl Linnaeus

#Melancholy #Interest #Persons

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

#Poverty #Sickness #Melancholy

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
-- Charles Baudelaire

#Literature #Melancholy #Type

There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass
-- Charles Kuralt

#Wind #Sorrow #Melancholy

Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]
-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Gratitude #Melancholy #Worst

Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both.
-- Colin Farrell

#Pain #Character #Melancholy

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.
-- Constant Lambert

#Taken #Bombs #Melancholy

In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
-- Daniel Boone

#Diversity #Impossible #Melancholy

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

#Cities #Needs #Melancholy

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.
-- David Guterson

#Melancholy #Brooding

So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.
-- Dodie Smith

#England #Melancholy

...that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseperable from the perfection of the beautiful.
-- Edgar Allan Poe

#Beautiful #Perfection #Melancholy

I fell in love with melancholy
-- Edgar Allan Poe

#Melancholy

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
-- Edgar Allan Poe

#Atmosphere #Sorrow #Melancholy

Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
-- Emile M. Cioran

#End Of The World #Melancholy #Ends

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
-- Francis Beaumont

#Sweet #Lovely #Melancholy

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.
-- Francois Truffaut

#Funny Things #Wonderful #Melancholy

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
-- George Saintsbury

#Melancholy #Century

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
-- George Santayana

#Art #History #Melancholy

Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.
-- Gunter Grass

#Tails #Coins #Melancholy

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.
-- Hector Berlioz

#Vehemence #Melancholy #Morbid

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

#Noble #Crafts #Melancholy

The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.
-- Horace

#Cheerful #Melancholy #Dislike

He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.
-- Horace Walpole

#Taken #Soul #Melancholy

You can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it.
-- Isaac Mizrahi

#Fashion #People #Melancholy

I'm so involved in melancholy.
-- Isaac Mizrahi

#Melancholy

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.
-- Italo Calvino

#Sad #Taken #Melancholy

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.
-- Jamaica Kincaid

#World #Melancholy #Abandoned

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

#Melancholy #Silent #Unhappiness

Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.
-- Jean Rhys

#Sometimes #Life Is #Melancholy

Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy.
-- John Milton

#Melancholy

She was not crying Which surprised me very much But I understand now That she had found places For her melancholy That were behind more masks Than only her eyes
-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Eye #Cry #Melancholy

There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.
-- Josh Radnor

#Lovely #Students #Melancholy

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
-- Karel Capek

#Triumph #Might #Melancholy

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.
-- Leigh Hunt

#Affection #Melancholy #Trifles

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.
-- Leigh Hunt

#Mirth #Melancholy #Disguise

All perfection is melancholy.
-- Margaret Oliphant

#Perfection #Melancholy

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

#Sadness #Misery #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.
-- Michael Haneke

#Melancholy #Tendencies #Feels

To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective; it reminds you to feel.
-- Mick Fleetwood

#Thinking #Needs #Melancholy

And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.
-- Mircea Eliade

#Useless #Realizing #Melancholy

You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.
-- Ovid

#Melancholy #Solitary

A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.
-- Paul Tsongas

#Life #Joy #Melancholy

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.
-- Rainbow Rowell

#Phones #Melancholy #Drag

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

#Miserable #Melancholy #Instruments

Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.
-- Robert Burton

#Overcoming #Melancholy

Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.
-- Scott Turow

#Disappointment #Want #Melancholy

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
-- Sydney Smith

#Giving #Way #Melancholy

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

#Mirth #Melancholy #Strings

Diabetes is caused by melancholy.
-- Thomas Willis

#Melancholy #Diabetes

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
-- Victor Hugo

#Sad #Being Sad #Melancholy

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
-- Victor Hugo

#Being Sad #Melancholy

The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.
-- Vincent Van Gogh

#People #Disease #Melancholy

A lot of the time there is a lot of melancholy in the lyrics.
-- Will Champion

#Melancholy

Industry is the enemy of melancholy
-- William F. Buckley, Jr.

#Enemy #Melancholy

Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.
-- William Shakespeare

#Death #Melancholy #Let Me

There's a whole kind of melancholy that you can only attain with reverb. That's an example of a technology introducing a whole new meaning.
-- Stephin Merritt

#Technology #Kind #Melancholy

I like to express true emotions under the cover of melancholy: It includes fulfilment and pain, which describes human existence.
-- Volker Bertelmann

#Pain #Emotion #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.
-- Jill Sobule

#Loner #Melancholy #Sexuality

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

#Sadness #Melancholy #Charm