Melancholy Quotes

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.

In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the blessed Apostle, of whom we have been speaking.

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

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

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

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.

There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.

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

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.

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.

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.

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.

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

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

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?

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.

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.

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

Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.

That's one thing about fashion that you really shouldn't be-you can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it.

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

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.

My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.