Melancholy Quotes - page 3

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. (Walter Bagehot)
Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy. View quote
Virginia Woolf
At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy. View quote
Federico García Lorca
In the course of reading he became more and more melancholy and finally became completely gloomy. When the reading was over he uttered in a voice full of sorrow: "Goodness, how sad is our Russia!" View quote
Nikolai Gogol
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
Melancholy is no bad thing. View quote
Sting (musician)
A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy All noble things are touched with that. View quote
Herman Melville
It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Why o'er the waves dost fly? O, rather, bird, with me Through the fair land rejoice! View quote
Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad. (Victor Hugo)
What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land. View quote
Che Guevara
I shall speak of ... how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another ... Of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next ... Of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis and progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin. View quote
Günter Grass
There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord. She is never sad but when she sleeps, and not ever sad then for I have heard my daughter say she hath often dreamt of unhappiness and waked herself with laughing. View quote
William Shakespeare
There's not a string attuned to mirth But has its chord in melancholy. View quote
Thomas Hood
Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there. View quote
Ismail Merchant
Hence, loathèd Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy. View quote
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! View quote
John Milton
Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment – and the subtlest nuances and interplay of these feelings which words are powerless to express and which are unattainable in painting and sculpture. View quote
Dmitri Shostakovich
When the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, And hides the green hill in an April shroud; Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose. View quote
John Keats
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy. View quote
Aristotle
... 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. In the Cathedral. View quote
Franz Kafka
The man, who in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week. View quote
Voltaire
Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety; old crotchets and most sweet closes. It shall be humorous, grave, fantastic, amorous, melancholy, sprightly, one in all, and all in one. View quote
John Marston