Melancholy Quotes
Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
Karel Capek
We have the melancholy dilemma of not being in a state to make peace or to prosecute war.
George Montagu
The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.
Rita Dove
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
Amelia Barr
I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.
George Will
Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.
Ismail Merchant
A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.
Paul Tsongas
Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
David Hume
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
Francois Fenelon
I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard.
Dave Grohl
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
The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
Ritchie Blackmore
But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
Paul McCartney
I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.
Chantal Kreviazuk
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.
Julia Ward Howe
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Oliver Goldsmith
I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.
James Otis