Quotes About Melancholy

I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.

I find Christmas very difficult.

I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. Theres a lot of cool stuff in there all the heartbreak of the country darkness.

The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.

Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death.

Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.

She poured me a cup of coffee and I drank it standing by the back door, looking out of the back garden. I felt it scald my tongue but it did not warm me. It was heavy with sugar but it did not taste sweet. I gave a little sigh. There are some days when nothing seems right.

Death Cab for Cutie's "Transatlanticism

Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy

And her eyes filled with heavy, regretful tears, yet she did not quite know for what she was weeping. She only knew that some great sense of loss, some great sense of incompleteness possessed her, and she let the tears trickle down her face, wiping them off one by one with her finger.

Melancholy can be seductive when it's twined with self-pity.

Although my perception might have been distorted by melancholy, it seemed to me that most of those people were in pairs, the larger percentage of them holding hands, as if they were extras in a movie of high romance, accessorizing a scene for which the director's purpose might have been to say that life was a parade lived two-by-two, as it had been since before Noah's fabled ark and as it would be always.

Laughter is a balm for the afflicted, the best defense against despair, the only medicine for melancholy. -Groucho Marx

Their melancholy drains me. Their need exhausts me. I am wrung by pity. Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving it scarred and sore.

the only companion with which he felt comfortable was sorrow.

Laughter wasn't just a medicine for melancholy, but also a sword raised against evil. A laugh said, You can't scare me into surrender, I'll fight you hard to the end.

Autumn arrived and life was in danger of becoming boring again.

The music was so mournful and emotional that it seemed like the only suitable thing to play.

BILIOUS HUMOURS

my heart went to water and drained from my chest.

It's really easy to do sad; you just put on some sad music and write dramatically - everybody can do that.

Rufus Wainwright is my go-to for any kind of emotion. He's got songs for all of it.

I lost the sunshine and roses, I lost the heavens so blue, I lost the beautiful rainbow, I lost the morning dew. I lost the angel who gave me Summer the whole winter through, I lost the gladness that turned into sadness When I lost you.

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.