Quotes About Melancholy

i cuori degli uomini che sono molto lontani dal loro Paese sono pieni di tristezze.

Cantó el amor, y el canto suyo era tan límpido y puro como el pensar de una doncella, como los sueños de un niño, como la luna en los cielos, nocturna diosa indolente de los misterios y suspiros. Cantó el dolor y el olvido, cantó las rosas y las brumas, cantó lejanas tierras donde sus lágrimas se derramaban en la soledad; cantó asimismo marchitas flores de la vida teniendo apenas dieciocho.

O doce sopro da primavera, Que jardins e campos regenera! Será que agora todo prazer Me é estranho e tudo que anima, Tudo que brilha, alegra e sublima Só traz tédio, torpor, desprazer À minha alma, há muito já morta, À qual tudo é vão e nada importa?

Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.

Oh, Mercédès, I have spoken your name with sighs of melancholy, with groans of pain and with the croak of despair. I have spoken it frozen with cold, huddled on the straw of my dungeon. I have spoken it raging with heat and rolling around on the stone floor of my prison. Mercédès, I must have my revenge, because for fourteen years I suffered, fourteen years I wept and cursed. Now, I say to you, Mercédès, I must have my revenge!

none of them were happy.

With their cheerless titles, who would want to read them?

Unlike depression, melancholy does not have a specific cause. It is an aspect of temperament, perhaps genetically based. One may emerge from the hypo, as Lincoln did, but melancholy is an indelible part of one's nature.

Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

Gray day. Everything is gray. I watch. But nothing moves today.

Invite your melancholy outside for a walk. Or read it a poem. Or bake it chocolate chip cookies.

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.

Melancholy is kind of sweet sometimes, I think. It's not a negative thing. It's not a mean thing. It's just something that happens in life, like autumn.

A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It's not easy to be on the wrong foot with life.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.

Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life.

This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

It's a sad and beautiful world.

We do not see our hand in what happens, and so we call certain events melancholy accidents… —Stanley Cavell

loneliness as solitude with self-pity thrown in.

Her grandson Robert Seton bears out her stark intention, 'She occasionally had her fits of melancholy and one in particular, when about eighteen she so far forgot herself at a time of unusual despondency as to entertain the wicked purpose of self-destruction.