Melancholy Quotes - Page 4

Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.

I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy

He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.

Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it may be blasphemy to say so, he and his 'Lamentations' are really not worth reading.

It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

Melancholy is no bad thing.

Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well.

Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.

You can’t take back texts. If you come off all moody and melancholy in a text, it just sits there in your phone, reminding you of what a drag you are.

People think I'm really melancholy and romantic and all whispery. I'm not at all. I'm very direct.

The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.

Work saves us from melancholy. Pleasure exposes us to it.

The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?

I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.

There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass

There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.

I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.

Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.

Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.

I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.

For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that's to say, pleasure in other things stops immediately and I become melancholy if I can't get on with the work.

There's a whole kind of melancholy that you can only attain with reverb. That's an example of a technology introducing a whole new meaning.

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.