2.
I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.
Edgar Allan Poe
3.
Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place.
William Wordsworth
5.
And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.
Mircea Eliade
6.
A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.
P. G. Wodehouse
9.
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
10.
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
Aristotle
11.
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
12.
Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.
Italo Calvino
13.
At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.
Arthur Golden
14.
Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.
Scott Turow
15.
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
Charles Baudelaire
16.
There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
Albert Camus
18.
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
Victor Hugo
19.
Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
Susan Sontag
20.
You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.
Ovid
22.
Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.
Aristotle
23.
I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.
Jamaica Kincaid
25.
I like to express true emotions under the cover of melancholy: It includes fulfilment and pain, which describes human existence.
Volker Bertelmann
26.
As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work
Charles Baudelaire
27.
You can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it.
Isaac Mizrahi
28.
Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.
Gunter Grass
29.
The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
Ritchie Blackmore
31.
Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.
Immanuel Kant
32.
Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.
Jean Rhys
33.
Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.
James Boswell
34.
Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.
Ana Castillo
35.
I was not always free from melancholy; but even melancholy had its charms.
Madame Roland
36.
Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Emile M. Cioran
37.
There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.
Aphex Twin
40.
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
41.
Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.
John Milton
42.
Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life.
William Shakespeare
43.
In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
Daniel Boone
44.
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
45.
When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
Carl Linnaeus
47.
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
Baruch Spinoza
48.
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.
Leigh Hunt
49.
There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
Charles Caleb Colton