Melancholy Quotes

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

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.

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.

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

Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.

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

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