Melancholy Quotes

• Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.

  

  Willard Gaylin
  • Quality
  • Emotion
  • Shame

• The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Support
  • Puzzles
  • Agonies

• 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.

  

  George Will
  • World
  • Mind
  • Innocence

• I read a lot - surveys of vernacular music. A lot of it is the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music, which I've loved since I was in high school. They had it at the library and I always thought that was interesting, even when I was into punk and stuff. Just the history of storytelling and the amount of melancholy a lot of old music has.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Music
  • History
  • Library

• Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Joy
  • Suffer
  • Melancholy

• To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an almost morbid melancholy.

  

  Hector Berlioz
  • Works
  • Precision
  • Verve

• Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Melancholy
  • Sublime
  • Characterizes

• But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomalyl) that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Beautiful
  • Perfection
  • Strain

• Russians – people, as a rule, are deep, friendly, often prone to melancholy.

  

  Ornella Muti
  • People
  • Melancholy
  • Russians

• I, too, am going to go away soon,' she says, 'I am weary and weary of my weariness. Everything is beginning to be a little empty and full of leave-taking and melancholy and waiting.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Empty
  • Melancholy
  • Weariness

• Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Nurse
  • Melancholy
  • Frenzy

• My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was sensible that I would suffer much from it.... I got upon a scaffold near the fatal tree so that I could clearly see all the dismal scene.... I was most terribly shocked, and thrown into a very deep melancholy.

  

  James Boswell
  • Curiosity
  • Execution
  • Spectacle

• These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Struck
  • Calligraphy
  • Greek Capitals

• Abraham Lincoln was a melancholy man, so he had a dark side that appeals to horror fans.

  

  Bill Oberst Jr.
  • Horror
  • Appeals
  • Dark Side

• The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • People
  • Labor
  • Pessimism

• We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a red bushy brow, while the right eye disappeared entirely under an enormous wart-of those straggling teeth with breaches here and there like the battlements of a fortress-of that horny lip, over which one of those teeth projected like the tusk of an elephant-of that forked chin-and, above all, of the expression diffused over the whole-that mixture of malice, astonishment, and melancholy. Let the reader, if he can, figure to himself this combination.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Reader
  • Combination
  • Disappeared

• I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.

  

  Michael Haneke
  • Person
  • Tendency
  • Temperament

• Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Night
  • Sound
  • Winter

• I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Lost
  • Exercise
  • Habit

• Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Despair
  • Melancholy
  • Symmetry

• Who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances, far better by comparing them as conscientiously as we can with other varieties of melancholy, happiness, and trance, than by refusing to consider their place in any more general series, and treating them as if they were outside of nature's order altogether?

  

  William James
  • Religious
  • Compare
  • Trance

• And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Melancholy
  • Fell in Love

• A lot of the time there is a lot of melancholy in the lyrics.

  

  Will Champion Coldplay
  • Lyrics
  • Melancholy

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

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Instruments
  • Miserable
  • Isolated

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