Quotes About Melancholy

Ultima nostalgie: a te duce la fund cu soarele

Apart from a few examples of exhaustive melancholy, and a few unequalled suicides, men are merely puppets stuffed with red globules in order to beget history and its grimaces.

In a Gnostic work of the second century of our era, we read: 'The prayer of a melancholy man will never have the strength to rise unto God.'...Since man prays only in despondency, we may deduce that no prayer has ever reached its destination.

All twilights are on my side.

At twenty, those nights when for hours at a time I would stand, forehead pressed against the pane, staring into the dark. . . .

In each man I passed I discerned a cadaver, in each odor a rot, in each joy a last grimace.

Incapable of getting up, nailed to my bed, I drift with the whims of my memory

All men see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy? For the indifferent, to whom nature offers an insipid and cold objectivity, life even when fully enjoyed is a sum of missed opportunities. — Emil M. Cioran, On the Heights of Despair . (University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition October 1, 1996) Originally published 1933.

Nu am dureri de cap, ci mai r?u: o ap?sare permanent? pe creier, o not? funebr? în spirit.

During the long nights in the caves, how many Hamlets must have murmured their endless monologues

Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract;

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone 'happy', no greater flattery than to grant him a 'vein of melancholy'... This is because gaiety is linked to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone.

my face: I should have had a single tear frozen to my cheek

There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes--

Probably we pursue an insoluble problem in seeking a suitable education for a morbidly melancholy mind.

When my bed get empty, make me feel awful mean and blue.

The camera resumes its melancholy tour.

Es war mir unmöglich, die wahre Bedeutung dieser Melancholie zu begreifen, die seine Persönlichkeit prägte und deren Schattenspiel mich faszinierte.

Nei momenti più insignificanti, mentre sono in cucina a preparare la cena, o quando guardo il tramonto, a volte divento terribilmente malinconica, proprio come se un grosso grumo di tristezza mi fosse tutt'a un tratto penetrato dentro.

It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.

I cried for a little while, taking a kind of melancholy delight in my own tears, and then I fell asleep.

You sure do look forlorn,

I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it.