Melancholy Quotes

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

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

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.

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.

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

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.

Diabetes is caused by melancholy.

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

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

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.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

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

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

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

This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.

A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.

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

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.