Quotes About Melancholy

We've mastered the art of making pretty music that makes you want to die.

In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I make or that other people make that really resonates with me.

Sometimes I'm happy, sometimes I'm sad.

I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.

I write a lot of sad songs!

If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for sadder songs.

The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.

It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.

All the best songs have an element of sadness.

Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to me a lot, actually - the melancholy of the situation becomes more front and center.

No one would ever cast me as an aristocrat. I think the big thing about being an Irish artist is access to melancholy. Especially the American Irish. The availability of loss, some kind of pain, is an important part of who we are. I think my Irishness gave me that.

That Yo La Tengo record, 'Painful,' has got some real awesome, noisy, mellow heartbreakers.

I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.

Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

and male company in Mireille's neurasthenic

One can define conservatism as the political form of melancholy. Fluctuating between equanimity and disgust, the conservative watches the activities of those moved by progressive feelings and waits for entropy to do its work.

People hate a break-up, but they love a break-up song.

Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.

I am too dark in my heart tonight.

No matter how much you want to respect someone's freedom (even when you consider it selfish), you still have your own pain, anger, and melancholy to contend with.

C'était de l'amour évidemment. Et demain, ça sera un grand vide.

What the old man senses is that the tone of Monsieur Bark's voice denotes sadness, a deep melancholy, a sort of wound the voice accentuates, which accompanies it beyond words and language, something that infuses it just as the sap infuses a tree without one seeing it.

Siento una punzada en el borde de mi corazón. Se trata de un dolor que viene con más lágrimas. Demasiada agua. Debe ser porque el hielo polar se está derritiendo. Debo ser la prueba viviente del efecto invernadero.