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Quotes About Melancholy

But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.
~ Walton Goggins
In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn.
~ William Shakespeare
People think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.
~ Bobby Lee
Gilmartins voice is angelic, but her lyrical subjects are often serious and slightly sad. The conflict of the beauty of her voice and the sadness of her lyrics makes for great music!
~ Jeff Belanger
Happiness is a sad song.
~ Charles M. Schulz
Be On Your Way is one of the favorite songs I've ever written. What a terribly sad song, but what a beautiful melody.
~ Dan Fogelberg
A lot of country music is sad.
~ Willie Nelson
You're a sad little hermit, and it creeps me out.
~ Rainbow Rowell
I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.
~ Anthony Doerr
She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.
~ Victor Hugo
When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.
~ Antonio Porchia
loveliness is infernally sad.
~ Virginia Woolf
I feel sad that he's just a voice now.
~ Yoko Ono
They're beautiful. But sad.' Everything's sad if you make it so, I said.
~ John Fowles
It's just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they're never coming again, and I'm not really getting all I could out of them.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn't point to.
~ Daniel Handler
We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.
~ Mark Twain
Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
There's music for when you're sad or happy or in love; there's music for every moment in life.
~ Haley Pullos
What do you know about being sad?' 'I know you don't need a reason.
~ Aryn Kyle
Aurora is right," Willa said, sounding sad to be agreeing with her.
~ Amanda Hocking
I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead.
~ Mark Twain
I loved everything to anything to everyone who surrounded him. He was perfect. A delusion with a sweet melancholy taste. He was crazy, but he was my crazy and inside, everything felt right.
~ Dominic Riccitello
Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.
~ Haruki Murakami, 1Q84