Melancholy Quotes

• Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

  

  Aristotle
  • Divine
  • Poets
  • Witty

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

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Drinking
  • Melancholy
  • Indeed

• There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Art
  • You
  • Me

• When I write, I tend toward melancholy, and the few times that I've tried pure joy in music, it doesn't really work that well. The joy can be through catharsis. I think that's what I do well, and observation.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Joy
  • Write
  • Catharsis

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

  

  Karel Capek
  • Me
  • Mankind
  • Triumph

• Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Philosophy
  • Lying
  • Brilliant

• The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed, 'Let me in - let me in!' 'Who are you?' I asked, struggling, meanwhile, to disengage myself. 'Catherine Linton,' it replied, shiveringly (why did I think of LINTON? I had read EARNSHAW twenty times for Linton) - 'I'm come home: I'd lost my way on the moor!' As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely, a child's face looking through the window.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Voice
  • Horror
  • Nightmare

• 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 Nirvana
  • Spring
  • Melancholy
  • Melody

• ... she indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Melancholy
  • Luxuries

• The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.

  

  Washed Out
  • Kind
  • Quality
  • Uplifting

• The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.

  

  Homer
  • Suffer
  • Melancholy
  • Joys

• I think there has to be an underlying sexuality. There has to be a perverseness to the clothes. There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance. It's like a Story of O. I am not big on women looking naive. There has to be a sinister aspect, whether it's melancholy of sadomasochist. I think everyone has a deep sexuality, and sometimes it's good to use a little of it-and sometimes a lot of it-like a masquerade.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Good
  • Women
  • Deep

• It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Want
  • Acting
  • Constant

• Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Great Men

• The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the nerves. It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.

  

  Emma Orczy
  • Heart
  • Happy
  • Water

• Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Green
  • Grief
  • Sat

• 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
  • Character
  • Pain
  • Melancholy

• Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Death
  • Melancholy

• Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mind
  • Protect
  • Jewelry

• My general taste is towards the melancholy.

  

  Washed Out
  • Taste
  • Melancholy
  • General

• Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.

  

  Emile Zola
  • People
  • Atmosphere
  • Pity

• That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Men
  • Ocean
  • Decoration

• The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived withouten infamy or praise.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Souls
  • Reserved
  • Moral Crisis

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