Quotes About Melancholy

Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor

So imagine a fire going -- wood snapping the way it does when it's a little green — the wind rattling the windows behind the curtains -- and one of those Chopin melodies that feel like sorrow and ecstasy all mixed together pouring from the keys -- and you have my idea of happiness. Or just reading, reading and lamplight, the sound of pages turning. And so you dare to be happy. You do that thing. You dare.

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.

The house wove a spell over her, as if melancholy dreams drifted down from the cobwebbed corners.

He was such a serene creature, fits of temper or melancholy on Khaster's part barely touched him. Tayven was a being of light, and now Khaster craved those rays. He could see how it might be easy to become addicted to Tayven's presence. It was all that Almorante had promised.

Georgia, GeorgiaThe whole day through;Just an old sweet songKeeps Georgia on my mind.

Softly drops the crimson sun: Softly down from overhead, Drop the bell-notes, one by one, Melting in the melting red....

There's a longing in country music that can soften even the rockiest heart.

The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon.

Every so often, if I'm in a melancholy mood, I'll sing 'Desperado' in my shows. I'll sit alone at the piano and play it as a solo. The song feels like an old friend - except now it's saying, 'You were a desperado once, but you worked your way out of it.'

When you hear a solo piano, there's a solitude about just one instrument playing. It can be beautiful; it can be sad.

I like guitar sounds to be a little somber.

I don't really connect with super-sad, somber songs.

No one can actually define love, but you attempt to, and the closest you can get is longing. And that itself has a melancholy to it. You can say dread, or doom - it's that feeling we all feel when we fall in love with someone: we have this horrible, fearful feeling that maybe we will never have that person in our life.

Tasting what could have been—what should have been—didn't make it easier.

He stretched out on the bed and was suddenly struck by how utterly lonely he was.

Everybody has their favorite sad songs. That's part of what I love so much about country music. Country music is never afraid to go with a sad song.

I know for works for me - those wonderful sad love songs.

You play me with your jazz & leave me with the blues.

But then you left exactly how all the sad songs said you would

The clouds wept when my heart sand a song of sorrow

You're hurt.""No. No, I'm fine. It's not blood. The militiamen were adjusting Sir Lewis's trebuchet, and there was a mishap. You took a melon for me." She smiled, even though her lips trembled.

There's a lamentation in the flutter of your lash.