Melancholy Quotes - Page 3

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.

A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.

Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

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.

Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better.

I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise.

Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.

There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.

The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.

In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.

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

Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.

All perfection is melancholy.

Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy.

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

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

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!

A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

A lot of the time there is a lot of melancholy in the lyrics.