Melancholy Quotes - Page 5

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness

To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective; it reminds you to feel.

The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.

I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.

She was not crying Which surprised me very much But I understand now That she had found places For her melancholy That were behind more masks Than only her eyes

Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.

As a bit of loner, prone to melancholy, with a questionable sexuality, I found great solace in the words of-Dylan, Joni, John Prine and Leonard Cohen. The darker the better.

One nation is to another what one individual is to another; with this melancholy distinction perhaps, that the former with fewer of the benevolent emotions than the latter, are under fewer restraints also from taking undue advantage of the indiscretions of each other.

I'm so involved in melancholy.

The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.

There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.

it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.

Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.

Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.

So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn’t point to.

To the seeker after the new, or the sensational, to those who expect a sinister frisson from modern music, it is my melancholy duty to point out that all the bomb throwing and guillotining has already taken place.

... she indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries.

True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.