Quotes About Melancholy

After love a formal feeling comes.

The song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the sad things?

So I went back outside to wait…and to sing.

è una ragazza virtuosa, sensata, intelligente, d'ottima educazione; una figlia devota e una perfetta padrona di casa. Solo, ogni tanto, soffre di tremendi attacchi di malinconia, di cui nessuno è mai riuscito a spiegare l'origine. Perciò vi raccomando: non meravigliatevi se improvvisamente, senza motivo, la vedete scoppiare in lacrime. Non è colpa vostra, e lei non ce l'ha con voi. Però è meglio che le giriate alla larga finché non le passa.

One of Milton's poems contains the well-known line "Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.

Yet the one I think of most often_¨

ll the merry little elves can go hang themselves My faith is as cold as can be I'm stacked high to the roof, and I'm not without proof If you don't believe me, come see. You think i'm blue I think so too In my words you'll find no guile The game's gotten old The deck's gone cold And i'm gonna have to put you down for a while The game's gotten old The deck's gone cold I'm gonna have to put you down for a while -Bob Dylan, "Huck's Tune

The gap that was created during those transatlantic voyages hundreds of years ago. That gap is the matrix of Saudade – The Longing, I think, that all Africans in the West have, that is at the root of the blues and jazz and soul and rap. If you listen you can hear it, elusive, fleeting, full of melancholy anger.

Toda esa tristeza del tango es lo que ha llevado a gente a afirmar que el tango es «un pensamiento triste que se baila»

While the music played a whole eternity went by like life in a novel

One sublime malady/Is still called song.

Por la ventana se veían los largos regueros de lágrimas del crepúsculo en las negras mejillas de las nubes.

Do not think that I am not sad, though I laugh.

Though all the houses of Venice are strange and old, those of the Ghetto seemed particularly so – as if queerness and ancientness were two of the commodities this mercantile people dealt in and they had constructed their houses out of them. Though all the streets of Venice are melancholy, these streets had a melancholy that was quite distinct – as if Jewish sadness and Gentile sadness were made up according to different recipes. Yet

Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression.

Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom.

Quando sei triste hai bisogno di sentire il tuo dolore fatto musica

Lisa's eyes, once so magnetic, now just look empty.

I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.

The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.

My bones hold a stillness, the far Fields melt my heart.

My hours are married to shadow.

Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue

I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas