Melancholy Quotes

• Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my abdomen would be assailed by a melancholy, cold shivering. In the end I couldn't abide such happiness and ran away.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Moments
  • Happiness
  • Bliss

• The baronet, in his old age, had been cast up by his vices on the shores of melancholy; heavy-eyed, grey-haired, bent, he seemed to pass through life as in a dream.

  

  Barry Pain
  • Dream
  • Melancholy
  • Baronet

• 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

• 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

• I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it.

  

  Sofia Coppola
  • Feelings
  • Touching
  • Bittersweet

• Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Melancholy
  • Legitimate
  • Tones

• Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Ocean
  • Waste
  • Gray

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

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Despair
  • Melancholy
  • Symmetry

• I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Writing
  • Nature
  • Melancholy

• By lunchtime the valley was lightly coated, like a cake with confectioner's sugar...there was white fur on the antlers of the iron deer and on the melancholy boughs of the Norway spruce.

  

  Elizabeth Enright
  • Melancholy
  • Lunchtime
  • Antlers

• While the accompanimental sic figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk, and then in octaves by the violins and violas, it is a melancholy and contemplative tune.

  

  Bear McCreary
  • Melody
  • Tune
  • VIolins

• Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. In creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative and a need that weighs heavily upon man’s mood, so that he comes to be in a mood of melancholy. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, whether we are clearly aware of the fact or not, whether we speak at length about it or not. All creative action resides in a mood of melancholy, but this is not to say that everyone in a melancholy mood is creative.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Freedom
  • Mood
  • Achievements

• Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Joy
  • Melancholy
  • Resignation

• While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • World
  • Pity
  • Weariness

• Be cheerful and grateful for the good that you have: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Hopes

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

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Thinking
  • Humans
  • Levels

• Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to barbarous or civilized nations, to the conduct of the world around us, or to the monitor within the breast; whether we read, or hear, or act, or think, or feel, the same humiliating lesson is forced upon us.

  

  William Wilberforce
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Ancient

• But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Color

• As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Human being
  • Melancholy
  • Features

• Come, let us give a little time to folly... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.

  

  Bonaventure
  • Change
  • Pleasure
  • Hours

• Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety; old crotchets and most sweet closes. It shall be humorous, grave, fantastic, amorous, melancholy, sprightly, one in all, and all in one.

  

  John Marston
  • Song
  • Sweet
  • Humorous

• Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Christian
  • Enjoy
  • Pleasures

• When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and the seas shall be frozen over, and the icecap shall have crept downward to the equator from either pole . . . when all the cities shall have long been dead and crumbled into dust, and all life shall be on the last verge of extinction on this globe; then, on a bit of lichen, growing on the bald rocks beside the eternal snows of Panama, shall be seated a tiny insect, preening its antennae in the glow of the worn-out sun, the sole survivor of animal life on this our earth - a melancholy bug.

  

  William Jacob Holland
  • Growing
  • Animal
  • Eternity

• And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.

  

  Mircea Eliade
  • Realize
  • Melancholy
  • Wails

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