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Quotes About Melancholy

This mizzle fits me like a sad jacket.
~ Sylvia Plath
I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.
~ Sylvia Plath
Sheep In Fog The hills step off into whiteness. People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them. The train leaves a line of breath. O slow Horse the colour of rust, Hooves, dolorous bells ---- All morning the Morning has been blackening, A flower left out. My bones hold a stillness, the far Fields melt my heart. They threaten To let me through to a heaven Starless and fatherless, a dark water.
~ Sylvia Plath
I just sat there with the whole summer turning sour in my mouth.
~ Sylvia Plath
My drink was wet and depressing. Each time I took another sip it tasted more and more like dead water
~ Sylvia Plath
I am in black, dressed more and more often in black now.
~ Sylvia Plath
Dusk hoods me in blue now, like a Mary. O colour of distance and forgetfulness!
~ Sylvia Plath
It's just ordinary hopelessness.
~ T.S. Eliot
My heart bleeds buttermilk. -Daine
~ Tamora Pierce
The last notes dripped from the mandolin and melted like magic coinage into nothing. The nothing contained the hall, the limbo that was blind as Cupid, did not breathe, held to its own fancies, its own hidden wants and musings.
~ Tanith Lee
You know it's a bad sign when the theme song from Titanic describes your relationship.
~ Julia Spencer-Fleming
I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.
~ Julia Ward Howe
The stone bench is gray. The grass is gray. My life is dirty gray
~ Julie Anne Peters
Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt hollow and empty and aching.
~ Juliet Marillier
I could sit right here and think a thousand miles away, Since I had the blues this bad, I can't remember the day...
~ Julio Cortazar
Sólo alcanzaba a advertir la casa triste, que Rema estaba como cansada, que apenas llovía y las cosas tenían, sin embargo, algo de húmedo y abandonado
~ Julio Cortazar
La melancolía de una vida demasiado corta para tantas bibliotecas, etc. La falta de experiencia es inevitable, si leo a Joyce estoy sacrificando automáticamente otro libro y viceversa
~ Julio Cortazar
Chuva, chuva. Continuaria Berthe Trépat tocando piano?
~ Julio Cortazar
Realmente nu m? mâhneÅŸte din cale-afar? c? nu l-am citit pe Jouhandeau în întregime, cel mai mult m? încearca melancolia ca viaÅ£a e prea scurt? pentru atâtea biblioteci.
~ Julio Cortazar
pero escuchar a Billie Holiday era una tristeza hermosa que daba ganas de acostarse y llorar de felicidad (...)
~ Julio Cortazar
a lo sumo la melancolía de una vida demasiado corta para tantas bibliotecas [...]
~ Julio Cortazar
Música, melancólico alimento del alma para los que vivimos de amor.
~ Julio Cortazar
y uno está tan triste, Horacio, porque todo es hermoso...
~ Julio Cortazar
Como siempre a esta altura del año, me invade un gran deseo de volver a ver a los viejos amigos, tan alejados ya por esas mil razones que la vida nos va obligando a acatar poco a poco. Usted también, creo, es sensible a la amable melancolía de una sobremesa en la que nos hacemos la ilusión de haber sido menos usados por el tiempo, como si los recuerdos comunes nos devolvieran por un rato el verdor perdido.
~ Julio Cortazar