Quotes About Melancholy

I remember weeping silently in bed after watching 'Titanic.'

'American Graffiti' stayed in my mind, but I don't think to this day I've done a film that captured that same level of melancholy. It was so well done. Talking about it has given me the idea I might try harder to make that melancholy film!

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

Every time I watched 'K3G,' I buried my face in my hands and wept.

Prague is a dark place.

Just as an audience member, I've always preferred dark things and very heavy, emotional things.

'Melancholy' is prettier than 'depression'; it connotes a kind of nocturnal grace. Makes one feel more innocently beleaguered.

'Dancing on My Own' is actually a really sad song! It has totally made me cry.

I kind of like being depressed.

I seem to be able to get depressed quite easily without any reason.

I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.

Christmas is cheery for some people and depressing for others.

No matter what Diana is saying, it kind of goes down at the end. It's like a sadness.

I thought you liked suffering and death. I mean... you always look like suffering and death.

No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.

Some men were just born beside a river of melancholy. Some men lived a lifetime there.

Prince, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (2004)

The songs were all either fast or sad. Because all songs should be either fast or sad.

Ye banks and braes o' bonny Doon,How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair?How can ye chant, ye little birds,And I sae weary fu' o' care!Thou'll break my heart, thou warbling bird,That wantons thro' the flowering thorn!Thou minds me o' departed joys,Departed never to return.

Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy.

Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.

If there be a hell upon earth, it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart.

All my joys to this are folly, Naught so sweet as melancholy.

That which Pythagoras said to his scholars of old, may be forever applied to melancholy men, A fabis abstinete, eat no beans.