Melancholy Quotes

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

I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place.

I fell in love with melancholy

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

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.

I find beauty in melancholy.

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

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.

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

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.

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

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

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

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

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

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

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

Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.

You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.

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

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

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

Industry is the enemy of melancholy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am a melancholy type of person.

Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

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

Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.

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

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

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.

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

There is a melancholy which accompanies all enthusiasm.

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.

Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.

There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.

My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.

Improve every opportunity to be melancholy.

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.

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.

Diabetes is caused by melancholy.

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