Quotes About Melancholy

A song, and she'd swallowed it.

It was incredibly glorious, and the ship I was on was the most amazing archaeological and engineering discovery of my lifetime, and all I could feel was melancholy.

There are still places I cannot walk past, though we only walked here those two days. When I walk I look for places we did not go.

Remember me at Winterlong.

This is the way of long and empty roads: nearly forgotten things surface and singing voices improve.

There is a broken song that plays over in my head each time I hear someone say his name.

when she was younger, hannah liked to feel sad, so long as it was artifical sad' that was what she called it when the sadness was about something that wasn't real

That Hadrian's profound Hellenophilia and his love of travelling, the two major driving impulses of his reign, were closely linked is clear. That his early experiences of Greece were formative in a different way – one which was to have considerable resonances for his spiritual curiosity and what was perhaps an innate predisposition to melancholy – is less well known.

Her irritation with the world had dampened into a cushion of soft melancholy that went with her everywhere.

Helen worked in her back garden, planting her tulip and crocus bulbs. Her irritation with the world had dampened into a cushion of soft melancholy that went with her everywhere.

felt a sense of dismalness.

As David Hume explained, "The mind of man is subject to certain unaccountable terrors and apprehensions, proceeding from the unhappy situation of private or public affairs, from ill health, from a gloomy and melancholy disposition. In such a state of mind, where real objects of terror are wanting, the soul … finds imaginary ones, to whose power and malevolence it sets no limits.

My sad heart foams at the stern.

Unhappiness was my god.

Mais, vrai, j'ai trop pleuré! Les aubes sont navrantes. Toute lune est atroce et tout soleil amer.

Hace ya miles de años que la pálida Ofelia pasa, fantasma blanco por el gran río negro; más de mil años ya que su suave locura murmura su tonada en el aire nocturno.

Sometimes life is truly woeful.

En aquel entonces, además de los bailes de salón que le servían para ganarse la vida —tango, foxtrot, boston—, dominaba como nadie el arte de crear fuegos artificiales con las palabras y dibujar melancólicos paisajes con los silencios.

Irremediablemente, él nota el regusto de melancolía. De pronto los recuerdos acuden atropellándose: palabras breves como gemidos deslizándose por una piel desnuda, escorzo de líneas largas y suaves reflejadas sobre un espejo que multiplicaba el gris de afuera, en el contraluz plomizo de una ventana que, como un cuadro francés de primeros de siglo, enmarcaba palmeras mojadas, mar y lluvia.

What do you know about being sad?' 'I know you don't need a reason.

Hume to ab bhi wo gujra jamana yaad aata hai, Tum hi kyo koi deewana yaad aata hai

The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the, benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.

The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.

'Jalsaghar' brings back memories of some great music.