Melancholy Quotes

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

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

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical.

In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

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

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

I'm so involved in melancholy.

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

We have the melancholy dilemma of not being in a state to make peace or to prosecute war.

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

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.

A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

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

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.

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.

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

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

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

I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.

I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.