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.

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

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.

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.

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

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

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

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

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.

Industry is the enemy of melancholy

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

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

Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.