Top 671 Melancholy Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on September 19, 2024.
I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.
I like the contrast in making something that sounds sunny but also has an element of melancholy to it.
In everybody's life, there is love, there is sorrow, there is melancholy. And there might be danger as well.
Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.
This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.
Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .
Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.
During the wintertime in cold cities, you sometimes need a party to break through the melancholy.
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end...
But my favorite part in my body are my dark circles. They define me. They reveal my melancholy.
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically.
Ever since I was a kid, I've always been interested in the poetry of melancholy, if you like.
It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.
Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.
I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.
Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.
People think I'm really melancholy and romantic and all whispery. I'm not at all. I'm very direct.
Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.
The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.
Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Oftentimes, especially in the context of an acoustic song, I'm motivated to write by some amount of melancholy.
The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause.
The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.
I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't.
I'm not a big fan of Christmas, and I think there are a lot of people who feel a bit melancholy at the holiday.
I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.
Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place.
There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
All my films have always been released in the autumn, maybe because they're more melancholy to people.
Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
There is a sense of melancholy attached to seeing images of yourself from a different era, especially when you see a picture.
I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
If you observe, all classic love songs have a tinge of melancholy that comes naturally with the composition.
A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.
There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.
A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.
There's definitely sadness happening in this band. I get melancholy every day about things.
I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.
What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.
There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.
Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well.
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
...too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.
I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it.
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood.
Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.
It is impossible that a fish doesn't carry any smell of the sea and a real love, of the melancholy!
