Quotes About Melancholy

You might say that the universe plays the blues.

I like what is joyous and agreeable," he ejaculated, "I hate what is disagreeable and melancholy.

Faced with her mother's mood swings, Charlotte is docile. She tames her melancholy. Is this how one becomes an artist? By growing accustomed to the madness of others?

Abstruse thought and profound researches I prohibit, and will severely punish, by the pensive melancholy which they introduce, by the endless uncertainty in which they involve you, and by the cold reception which your pretended discoveries shall meet with, when communicated. Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.

Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are, therefore, the true sources of Superstition.

As for abstruse thought and profound researches, ·nature also says·, I prohibit them, and if you engage in them I will severely punish you by the brooding melancholy they bring, by the endless uncertainty in which they involve you, and by the cold reception your announced discoveries will meet with when you publish them. Be a philosopher, ·nature continues·, but amidst all your philosophy be still a man.

Melancholy persons are foreigners in their mother tongue. The dead language they speak foreshadows their suicide.

How like a winter has been my hard spring away from you, my harp. --Psalm

Blue. My God! I'm so blue that if I were a dog, I'd sit on my haunches and howl and howl and howl...

Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.

It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

Seth told us good night and left. I watched him go wistfully. "Anyone else here feel like swooning?

I haven't been in a good mood since I was 6 years old

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

I had little talent for happiness.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.

Life is only a misery, without music.

Why is it that happiness remembered feels like despair?

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Sometimes I get so sad that it jest sounds good.