Quotes About Melancholy

Tapping a little bell, I leaned on the desk and turned to look at a small, traditionally decorated Christmas tree on a table near the entranceway. It was complete with shiny, egg-fragile bulbs; miniature candy canes; flat, laughing Santas with arms wide; a star on top nodding awkwardly against the delicate shoulder of an upper branch; and colored lights that bloomed out of flower-shaped sockets. For some reason this seemed to me a sorry little piece.

The normal process of life contains moments as bad as any of those which insane melancholy is filled with, moments in which radical evil gets its innings and takes its solid turn. The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony. If you protest, my friend, wait until you arrive there yourself. (The Varieties of Religious Experience, 1902)

this heartbreaking sadness I suffer every minute of the day (and night), this killing sadness that feels as if it will never leave me no matter where I go or what I do or whom I may ever know.

To think that another person shared my love for the icy bleakness of things .

The harp that once through Tara's hallsThe soul of music shed,Now hangs as mute on Tara's wallsAs if that soul were fled.

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.

Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children of this earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In love's service only wounded soldiers can serve.

You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down

It was as if all the melancholy I'd ever known, all the nights I sat alone thinking life sucked, had added up to our place in the world- finally a good place- and the spirit of that rightness was meant to echo on until the end of time.

These rare gray afternoons evoke a sweet, childhood melancholy in my soul, like when it rained in kindergarten and we had to stay inside and do crafts with library paste and pipe cleaners and buttons, and I made the best project in the whole class, an ultra-powerful rubber-band zip gun, but the teacher gave me a zero because I got her in the eye with a button.

Nostalgia is an amazing thing.

Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

I always find that nostalgia is sort of like memory without the pain. And that's why it feels so good to kind of bask in that, and I think it can be deceptively comforting.

Nostalgia is very powerful.

I think nostalgia is kind of dangerous in music.

There's so much nostalgia for music from the past.

I love nostalgia.

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.

I have a thing for major 7ths. They've got a very mournful, nostalgic quality to them.

I am a sad person. In this world there are people who like major notes and minor notes. I like minor notes.

If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.

If you observe, all classic love songs have a tinge of melancholy that comes naturally with the composition.

That was how the tears went down Cherry's face...a teaspoon full of ten years' sorrow.

You're Ã¢â'¬Â¦ in Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Dol Ã¢â'¬Â¦ drums," wailed a voice that sounded far away.