Quotes About Melancholy

A moment of sadness is the best time for deepest reflection.

The thought of you makes my heart melt.

There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it.

Haven't laughed this hard in a long time. I better stop now before I start crying. Go off to sleep in the sunshine...I don't want to see the day when its dying.

All the world is sad and drearyEv'rywhere I roam,Oh! darkies, how my heart grows weary,Far from the old folks at home.

Way down upon the Swanee River,Far, far away,There's where my heart is turning ever;There's where the old folks stay.

The sun rises low - if it rises at all - and hovers close to the horizon, barely skirting the hilltops before losing heart and sinking once more into the icy abyss of night.

Boss, what, exactly, are we doing here?" "Feeling maudlin." "Oh. Good. How long are we planning on doing that?" "Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" "What?" "Never mind.

He is one of those who bring their own dark clouds wherever they go. He keeps them on a string. They are always there, even on the brightest of days. It takes only a chance remark and he tugs their strings, drags them down, and blots out the sun.

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

I love slow music.

When I first started writing, I wrote really sad, emotional songs which were all slow.

Hvor grotesk er ikke et vesen som føler avsky for sin egen person, som blir nedtrykt av sine gleder og ser på seg selv som en ulykke!

Melancholy was a fleshy wave permanently cresting on her face, she had to speak through it when she talked.

Melancholy was a fleshy wave permanently crusting on her face. She had to speak through it when she talked.

She was just so sad. Her whole face hung with it, like sadness was her personal gravity.

I have an innate passion for contradiction—my whole life has been nothing but a series of melancholy and vain contradictions of heart or reason.

Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their vocabularies would have come together, like bashful lovers, and the music of one would have begun to intersect with the music of the other. But it was too late now.

No hay nada que una más rápido a la gente (aunque solo sea en apariencia e ilusoriamente) que una comprensión mutua triste y melancólica.

For nostalgia does not heighten memory's activity, it does not awaken recollections; it suffices unto itself, unto its own feelings, so fully absorbed is it by its suffering and nothing else.

ÄŒervánky zániku ozaÃ…â"¢ují vÅ¡echno kouzlem nostalgie; i gilotinu.

Pop songs now, they're about the aftermath of love.

The Autumn seems to cry for thee,Best lover of the Autumn-days!

I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it.