Quotes About Melancholy

When he first returned to the Badlands in the summer of 1884, the austere landscape seemed to mirror his melancholy.

The mind most effectually works upon the body, producing by his passions and perturbations miraculous alterations, as melancholy, despair, cruel diseases, and sometimes death itself …They that live in fear are never free, resolute, secure, never merry, but in continual pain …It causeth oft-times sudden madness.

Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.

They are sad books, filled with sad and skinless people. There are some who do not like such books. The world, too, is crowded with the sorrowful and the sensitive. There are many who do not like such a world.

I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.

What's up?" "I don't know," said Marvin, "I've never been there.

Life',said Marvin,'don't talk to me about life

I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed,' it said.

Life,' said Marvin, 'don't talk to me about life.

I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed,' it said. Its voice was low and hopeless.

And as Coldmoon closed the door behind him, he could still hear the faint sound of Pendergast's laughter—dulcet, melodious, yet infinitely sad—as he maintained his sanity by skipping from one tiny sliver of time to another, between the beat of a hummingbird's wings.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

Dyspepsia is responsible for many a reputation for romantic melancholy or ungovernable rages.

Oh, you may smile, Mr. Quin, but you cannot deny what I am saying." "I deny nothing. In what you see you are always right. And yet—" "Yet what?" Mr. Quin leaned forward. His dark melancholy eyes searched for those of Mr. Satterthwaite. "Have you learned so little of life?" he breathed.

El ansia de matar estaba en su corazón. Se deslizó por sus dedos y murió en ondas sonoras.

If you're exposed to grief long enough, you can become addicted to it, you know. You begin to feel something's missing when­ever you're without sadness. And once this happens, sad­ness becomes a kind of queer delight...

Riley was the exception to the feast of cholesterol. For him it was dry toast, black coffee and lashings of self pity.

I'm always drawn to melancholy personalities.

I'm a total pessimist.

George Winston piano albums have been my go-to since junior high.

Piano is unique in that way: it can be both percussive and haunting.

I don't wanna make something depressing, I wanna make something sorrowful.

'The melancholy of all things done' is the way Buzz once described his complete mental breakdown after returning from the moon. Booze. A couple of divorces. A psych ward. Broke. At one point he was selling cars.

'You're Ugly Too' isn't a comedy, but it has a lightness of touch with a hard edge. But it's essentially a warm story tinged with a bit of melancholy in the great Irish tradition. I'm very proud of that film.