Quotes About Melancholy

Melancholy, a major instrument of cognition, the only one capable of disturbing and shaking the imperialistic security of theology...

The accordion is the best instrument for mournful occasions because it is melancholy and beautiful and cumbersome and ridiculous at the same time.

He used the haunting phrase, "Alas for what has been lost.

Lágrima"—"Teardrop"—the

Luke the Drifter: Play me the saddest song you got. Frankie Presto: Why do you want to hear a sad song? Luke the Drifter: They're more true than the happy ones

Then, after he'd watched her walk out, a wave of melancholy swept over him and for the thirtieth time that day he regretted that he hadn't just become a pharmacist, or a charter captain, or something that made you feel more alive, like a pirate.

Even those people who have no sorrow of their own often feel melancholy from the circumstances in which they are placed.

As Genji mused about the transitory nature of life, intense feelings of weariness and distaste for the world overwhelmed him. How much longer must he go on living in it now that he had been left behind?

The monotony stirs many bitter recollections

The midnight bell, the bird of dawn? But ah! they're sorrowful indeed When loosen'd was the damask zone.

Perhaps this was indeed the way so remarkably accomplished a man was destined to meet his end,' he replied, 'because two or three years ago he began looking very downcast and melancholy, and I often warned him, despite my own want of sense, that a man who sees too far into life and thinks about things too deeply becomes too detached from them and to be attractive and only loses whatever luster he may have had, but he seemed merely to find my opinion shallow.

The scent of the tree's flowers can stop conversation. Rohan knows no purer source of melancholy.

Mirar Adentro Del siglo dieciseis data mi pena y apenas lo sabía porque aquel ruiseñor siempre canta en mi pena. Looking Within From the sixteenth century dates my suffering though I barely felt it for that nightingale always sings in my suffering.

Al-most-blue...con due pause in mezzo, due respiri sospesi da cui si capisce, si sente che sta tenendo gli occhi chiusi. Per questo mi piace Almost blue. Perchè è una canzone che si canta ad occhi chiusi.

Me sonrió con una melancolía que no se merecían sus años

Le vi la mirada cansada, triste.

In her mind she could remember about six different tunes from the pieces of his [Mozart's] she had heard. A few of them were kind of quick and tinkling, and another was like that smell in springtime after a rain. But they all made her somehow sad and excited at the same time. She hummed one of the tunes, and after a while in the hot, empty house by herself she felt the tears come in her eyes.

Instead of blue skies and sunshine, there are grey clouds and endless rain that seeps into your bones, your soul.

Through many countries and over many seas I have come, Brother, to these melancholy rites, to show this final honour to the dead, and speak (to what purpose?) to your silent ashes, since now fate takes you, even you, from me. Oh, Brother, ripped away from me so cruelly, now at least take these last offerings, blessed by the tradition of our parents, gifts to the dead. Accept, by custom, what a brother's tears drown, and, for eternity, Brother, 'Hail and Farewell'.

The sadness grew within her until she seemed to exist only as a dark nimbus of melancholy, and even Max could no longer cheer her with his talk and his

Even witches sing the blues

The vampire changed the music from some heavy metal thing to Sarah Mc-Lachlan's "Good Enough," which is slow, but with a beat.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.