Quotes About Melancholy

I've always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I'd be looking at the waitress's cracked shoes.

This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.

I guess this song isn't about anything necessarily sad, but it makes me sad just because it makes me think about how inaccessible the past is, but it's called 'Boy Child' by Scott Walker.

I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.

The future is kind of a bleak place.

American blues can make you sad.

You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling.

I was singing the blues when I was six. Kind of sad, eh?

Doo-wop was full of blues for me.

I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.

Mr. Brad Delp. J'ai une ame solitaire. I am a lonely soul.

I had sadness for breakfast.

Music breaks my heart constantly.

When I think of the 1980s, the only color that comes to mind is a brown, yellowish color. I guess it's coming from my life experience, and it's melancholia and sadness and a bit of joy.

I'm a sucker for a sad song.

I'm a sucker for emotionally exploitative cello.

I'm a sucker for sad disco pop.

I don't much care for the sunlight or bright colours of any kind.

I like the contrast in making something that sounds sunny but also has an element of melancholy to it.

Only the long melancholy call to prayer, or the wail of women over the dead, or the barking of dogs, breaks the silence which at sunset falls as a pall over Baghdad.

At first the solitude charmed me like a prelude, but so much music wounded me.

His smile was so soft and fine: like gleaming old ivory, like homesickness, like a Christmas snowfall in the dark village, like turquoise around which many pearls are fashioned, like moonlight on a favorite book. -in Mädchenmelancholie (Girls' melancholy)

Why should you want to exclude any anxiety, any grief, any melancholy from your life, since you do not know what it is that these conditions are accomplishing in you?

Why do you want to shut out of your life any agitation, any pain, any melancholy, since you really do not know what these states are working upon you? ...just remember that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself of foreign matter; so one must just help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and break out with it, for that is its progress.