Melancholy Quotes

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. (Anatole France)
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. View quote
Samuel Johnson
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. View quote
Charles Lamb
This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air. View quote
William Butler Yeats
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. View quote
Charles Dickens
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach. View quote
Sydney Smith
Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits. View quote
Susan Sontag
Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end. (Karel Čapek)
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy! View quote
Emil Cioran
Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself. View quote
Emil Cioran
And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair And they heard the words it said, 'Pan is dead great Pan is dead Pan, Pan is dead' View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. View quote
François Fénelon
Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place. View quote
William Wordsworth
Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden. View quote
Mark Twain
Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. View quote
Comte de Lautreamont
I'm so involved in melancholy. (Isaac Mizrahi)
As the romance of manned space exploration has waned, the drive today is to find our living, thinking counterparts in the universe. For all the excitement, however, the search betrays a profound melancholy - a lonely species in a merciless universe anxiously awaits an answering voice amid utter silence. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time. View quote
David Guterson
It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me. View quote
David Guterson
To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand; it is the cruelest trial reserved for self-devotion; it is what must have oftenest wrung the heart of the Son of man; and if God could suffer, it would be the wound we should be forever inflicting upon Him. He also - He above all - is the great misunderstood, the least comprehended. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel