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Melancholy Quotes

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At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.
Federico Garcia Lorca

Authors on Melancholy Quotes: Edgar Allan Poe Emile M. Cioran William Shakespeare Isaac Mizrahi Charles Baudelaire Leigh Hunt John Milton Henry David Thoreau Victor Hugo Charles Dickens Soren Kierkegaard Aristotle David Guterson Alexander McQueen Thomas Jefferson Kyffin Williams Walter Savage Landor Jill Sobule Constant Lambert Samuel Johnson Mircea Eliade Arthur Golden Franz Kafka Dodie Smith Oliver Goldsmith William Wordsworth Jean Rhys Alexander Smith Nicolas Chamfort Carl Linnaeus Stephin Merritt Thomas Willis Will Champion
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

4.
I fell in love with melancholy
Edgar Allan Poe

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

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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

7.
I find beauty in melancholy.
Alexander McQueen

8.
Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
Mason Cooley

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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

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Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
Aristotle

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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

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At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.
Arthur Golden

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Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.
Scott Turow

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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
Charles Baudelaire

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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
Albert Camus

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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
Edgar Allan Poe

18.
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
Victor Hugo

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

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You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.
Ovid

21.
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
William C. Bryant

22.
Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.
Aristotle

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I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.
Jamaica Kincaid

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Industry is the enemy of melancholy
William F. Buckley, Jr.

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I like to express true emotions under the cover of melancholy: It includes fulfilment and pain, which describes human existence.
Volker Bertelmann

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You can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it.
Isaac Mizrahi

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Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.
Gunter Grass

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

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As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work
Charles Baudelaire

30.
Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.
Jean Rhys

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Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.
James Boswell

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Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.
Ana Castillo

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I was not always free from melancholy; but even melancholy had its charms.
Madame Roland

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Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.
Immanuel Kant

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I am a melancholy type of person.
Alexander McQueen

36.
Improve every opportunity to be melancholy.
Henry David Thoreau

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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

38.
Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.
John Milton

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Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life.
William Shakespeare

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

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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

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When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
Carl Linnaeus

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There is a melancholy which accompanies all enthusiasm.
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

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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

45.
Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Emile M. Cioran

46.
There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.
Aphex Twin

47.
My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
Soren Kierkegaard

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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

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Diabetes is caused by melancholy.
Thomas Willis

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Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.
Edgar Allan Poe