Quotes About Melancholy

There was something enjoyable about wandering around the city alone, feeling forlorn.

the melancholic remainder of our lives (a place the Lisbon girls, wisely, it began to seem, never cared to see)

Remammo tutto quel giorno sotto la pioggia, e fu una fatica melanconica. Facemmo le viste, in principio, di divertirci un mondo. Dicemmo ch'era un diversivo, e che ci piaceva vedere il fiume sotto tutti i suoi diversi aspetti. Non potevamo aspettarci d'aver sempre sole, né l'avremmo voluto. E poi la natura era bella anche quando piangeva.

Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its song-is breaking into pieces and flying off in a hundred directions.

Nothing ever turns me on so much in a woman as unhappiness.

A woman who had fallen out of love with her life

When I woke up the lounge chair was empty, the woman was gone. But the gray light that pervaded the sky after sunset made me melancholy. That diffuse shade, exclusive to no one, defeated me, it provided no relief. Come to think of it, there's always some savage element at the beach, either to tolerate or to overcome: an element we crave and cower from at the same time. I've

You can learn things from a heart so bleedingWhen love bargains with deceitful pleading Hours soar from dawn to dawn splitting your time Don't hear melody from a soundless chime

There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.

Where one waits for that peremptory, half-melancholy, half-majestic sound of a ship blowing as she silently glides out black in the night, almost through the pub yard, from the docks basin on her voyage.

And yet, I am left with a kind of sadness that I can't quite explain.

El mar, en cambio, es el espejo de nuestros pensamientos, y por desgracia de los más profundos y melancólicos. Refleja aquello que hay oculto en las profundidades de nuestro espíritu, nuestros miedos inconfesados; hasta el rostro de la muerte se trasluce bajo la superficie líquida y cambiante, detrás del horizonte que huye cada vez más lejos, que no se deja nunca alcanzar.

And yet I feel so sad for some reason.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place.

I find beauty in melancholy.

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?

The blues have always had some of the best times, best feelings I've ever had.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

There'll be icicles and birthday clothes And sometimes there'll be sorrow

If I was made of chocolate I would melt myself in a car to ruin the interior.

In the period of my life that Fred and I had this conversation I was writing a thesis at Melbourne University as part of a masters in creative writing, entitled Melancholy Ever After, about the effect of melancholy on narrative structure in fairy tales.

sorriso tímidodoce dela. (...) Sarangerel, nome de ave e de mel. Ou de luar.