Quotes About Melancholy

Lord Denville, I regard her ladyship as an angel!' said Mr Horning reverently. 'Oh, no, no, you take too melancholy a view of her case!' Kit assured him. 'We trust she may– with care– enjoy several more years of life, and tolerably good health!' With these optimistic words he smiled sweetly at the stunned poet, and passed into the house.

hopeless gloom.

For if a man is melancholy, laughter is as far from his heart as land from a drowning man

There's songs you listen to at really heavy times, and you associate those songs with being depressed. 'English Rose' by The Jam, I can't listen to - it's just too heavy for me. 'Julia' by The Beatles, too. That popped up the other day, and I had to skip to the next song. They're both really awesome, moving songs, but I can't listen to them.

I always really loved Russian literature, and I think Tolstoy's writing is full of a sense of melancholy and humanity, so it seems really modern.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

Beyond the window, snow fell like frozen drops of poison.

There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime – a whole word for just being sad – about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're going to die." — Sarah Ruhl

I feel like crying. There's something so sad about broken concrete.

Burke was also gripped by a more generalized melancholy, one familiar to many who return from war, but which can't be easily explained to civilians, let alone to home-front loved ones. Along with its horrors, war is thrilling, exhilarating, it propels the prosaic concerns and nagging chores of everyday life into inconsequence.

Every broken lunatic needed a theme song.

Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.

The song Some Other Time is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.

We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it.

I cry all the time. Music makes me cry.

I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.

Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful.

Music can take you back in time to that place when you first fell in love and really haunt you.

For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised.

(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)

My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's "I Remember Sky." It's probably the saddest song of all time I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. It is a time when one is filled with vague longings; when one dreams of flight to peaceful islands in the remote solitudes of the sea, or folds his hands and says, What is the use of struggling, and toiling and worrying any more? let us give it all up.

Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.