Melancholy Quotes

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

I'm so involved in melancholy.

We have the melancholy dilemma of not being in a state to make peace or to prosecute war.

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.

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

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

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.

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

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

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