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Quotes About Melancholy

Francesca was feeling good feelings, old feelings, poetry and music feelings.
~ Robert James Waller
maudlin makes it difficult to enter the realm of gentleness
~ Robert James Waller
A park like this resembles a large, silent, isolated room. In fact it's always Sunday in a park, by the way, for it's always a bit melancholy, and the melancholy stirs up vivid memories of home, and Sunday is something that only ever existed at home, where you were a child.
~ Robert Walser
In the State of Denmark there was the odor of decay...
~ Roger Zelazny
We don't forget, but something vacant settles in us.
~ Roland Barthes
Like a kind of melancholy mirage, the other withdraws into infinity and I wear myself out trying to get there.
~ Roland Barthes
By the bye," he wrote to Washington, "in the melancholy situation to which the poor King of England has been reduced, there were, I am told, in relation to you, some whimsical circumstances." In a deranged fit, wrote Morris, the king had "conceived himself to be no less a personage than George Washington at the head of the American Army.
~ Ron Chernow
One could now see in his face the subdued melancholy of a man who had sacrificed too much for work.
~ Ron Chernow
I sat there in the armchair and felt bad. I'd lost something I never knew I'd had.
~ Lee Child
Just as certain people are more susceptible to particular diseases, some temperaments —especially those that tend to be melancholy or contemplative — are more vulnerable to questions and doubts.
~ Lee Strobel
His sadness seemed complete. It had left him nothing, no proper enjoyment, no Saturday mornings. Sadness wore him like a tailored suit.
~ Leif Enger
Karen Hansen Clement sank deep in melancholy. She heard till she could hear no more. She saw until she could see no more. She was exhausted and confused, and the will to go on was being drained from her blood. Then, as so often happens when one reaches the end of the line, there was a turning upward and she emerged into the light. It
~ Leon Uris
Profoundly moved, he kissed the lax waiting mouth with exquisite unhappiness.
~ Leonard Gardner
My heart is a void, dead, and this makes me sad.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear, who fret to find our bedtime near.
~ Lewis Carroll
shedding gallons of tears, until
~ Lewis Carroll
Why, in fact, is the word pain rarely used when describing depression? The dictionary uses synonyms such as melancholy, despondency, and sadness.
~ Linda Gray Sexton
the sadness at the corners of the unsmiling crimson mouth
~ Aldous Huxley
Un centímetro cúbico cura 10 sentimientos melancólicos
~ Aldous Huxley
But every evil brings its own remedy. Another quality of Saturn is melancholy; Saturn represents the sorrow of the universe; it is the Trance of sorrow that has determined one to undertake the task of emancipation. This is the energizing force of Law; it is the rigidity of the fact that everything is sorrow which moves one to the task, and keeps one on the Path.
~ Aleister Crowley
Qualcuno diceva: ha qualcosa addosso, come una specie di infelicità.
~ Alessandro Baricco
1) - E' uno strano dolore. Piano. - Morire di nostalgia per qualcosa che non vivrai mai.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Llegaron del salón las notas de un piano cansado: disolvían el tiempo, hasta hacerlo casi irreconocible.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Melancholy is to know the beauty of life, and to know it must end.
~ Alex Miller