Quotes About Melancholy

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

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I whistled a great deal in those days

The Beach Boys were my favorite. I use to listen to their hits over and over, especially 'In My Room' and 'Don't Worry Baby.' There's something really sad about 'Don't Worry Baby.' Even though it's just a California song about racing cars, the melody is really sad. There's melancholy in it.

Certain emotions just take you to the notes - being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes.

In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.

I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy.

There is no such thing as happy music.

The mere recurrence to those songs, even now, afflicts me; and while I am writing these lines, an expression of feeling has already found its way down my cheek.

Friedrich Hölderlin

The melancholy of everything completed!

There are days when I am haunted by a feeling that is blacker than the blackest melancholy. I have a contempt for humanity. I despise the people I have been fated to call my contemporaries. I feel suffocated by their filthy breath.

Seriousness in play. At sunset in Genoa, I heard from a tower a long chiming of bells; it kept on and on, and over the noise of the backstreets, as if insatiable for itself, it rang out into the evening sky and the sea air, so terrible and so childish at the same time, so melancholy. then I thoughts of Platos's words and felt them suddenly in my heart: all in all, nothing human is worth taking very seriously; nevertheless ...

Há dias em que se apodera de mim um sentimento mais negro que a mais negra melancolia – o desprezo dos homens.

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

I love winter. It's a beautiful time, but also a melancholic time, a reflective time, and I'd come to a point in my life where I felt I had to make certain decisions about my career.

What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.

'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' and 'Wish You Were Here' are standout tracks. 'Comfortably Numb' is another one. 'High Hopes' from 'The Division Bell' is one of my favorite all-time Pink Floyd tracks. 'The Great Gig in the Sky,' 'Echoes,' there's lot of them.

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

And tears are heard within the harp I touch.

I've always liked depressing music because a lot of times, listening to it when you're down can actually make you feel less depressed. Also, even though a person may have problems with depression, sometimes you can actually be kind of comfortable in that space because you know how to operate within it.

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.

As the last note sobbed to death, we came face to face, closer than was natural, our steps meshed in the confined space.

Gertrude's remedy for her mood swings was to print up hundreds of black-bordered calling cards embossed with the single word "Woe," which she handed out gaily declaring, "Woe is me.