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

• 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

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

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Melancholy
  • Fell in Love

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

  

  Bill Oberst Jr.
  • Horror
  • Appeals
  • Dark Side

• For the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life.

  

  John Milton
  • Air
  • Youth
  • Damp

• 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

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

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • People
  • Labor
  • Pessimism

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

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Joy
  • Melancholy
  • Resignation

• 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

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

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Despair
  • Melancholy
  • Symmetry

• 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

• Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Sorrow
  • Melancholy
  • Beasts

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

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Writing
  • Nature
  • Melancholy

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Sad
  • Sadness
  • Blades

• When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Reality
  • Evil

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

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Thinking
  • Humans
  • Levels

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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