Quotes About Melancholy

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

When I wrote 'When the Party's Over,' it had a universal quality.

I like dark, hopeless, beautiful tragedies.

For whatever reason, I've always gravitated towards music that feels nostalgic or longing or beautifully tragic.

I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic.

Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it.

Melancholy is a state that I very much enjoy being in, actually. It's not the same as feeling sad. It's a more complex emotion; it derives from a tragic view of the world, a tragic view of art.

I think I am fascinated with slightly tragic characters.

I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.

She despised the sadness that hung inside her like old lace.

My heart lurched and cleanly broke.

It's raining in my heart, like it's raining in the city. What is this sadness that pierces my heart?

I'm a sucker for sad disco pop.

We do not see our hand in what happens, and so we call certain events melancholy accidents...

Being beautiful in itself, youth needs no transfiguration: in its abundance of strong life it is drawn to the tragic, and is happy to let melancholy suck sweetly from its still inexperienced bloom, and the very same phenomenon accounts for the readiness of young people to face danger and reach out a fraternal hand to all spiritual suffering

Out of pity — ever and again out of pity! — and perhaps, too, to keep at bay his melancholy importunity, I had at one time and another bought three or four of these sordid, badly printed volumes and then casually left them lying about on my shelves.

Derken içeriye karanl?k çöktü, t?pk? yüreÄŸime çöken karanl?k gibi.

Es kränkt mich etwas, wie selbstverständlich der Spätsommer leuchtet, auch ohne daß ich guter Laune bin.

It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

now i am oldolder enough to have known the worldand i am sad

But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.

All this, he felt, he would now re-enter. He could inhabit the world of words, with, at the back of his melancholy, a solace he had not known before.

for his books came suddenly before his eyes, row upon row of volumes, row upon priceless row of calf-bound Thought, of philosophy and fiction, of travel and fantasy; the stern and the ornate, the moods of gold or green, of sepia, rose, or black; the picaresque, the arabesque, the scientific – the essays, the poetry and the drama. All this, he felt, he would now re-enter. He could inhabit the world of words, with, at the back of his melancholy, a solace he had not known before.

his books came suddenly before his eyes, row upon row of volumes, row upon priceless row of calf-bound Thought, of philosophy and fiction, of travel and fantasy; the stern and the ornate, the moods of gold or green, of sepia, rose, or black; the picaresque, the arabesque, the scientific – the essays, the poetry and the drama. All this, he felt, he would now re-enter. He could inhabit the world of words, with, at the back of his melancholy, a solace he had not known before.