Quotes About Melancholy

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

For me, comic scores always have to have some melancholy in the background.

I did a movie a few years back, 'Medicine for Melancholy.' People will come up to me after a set and say, 'I really love that movie. When are you going to do another one?' Or 'I loved you on 'The Daily Show.' Why did you leave?' It's kind of the same as saying, 'I loved you in high school. You should have never left.'

I liked 'The Darjeeling Limited' very much. There was a melancholy about that film that I liked.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

I am a melancholy type of person.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.

I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.

My general taste is towards the melancholy.

I'm so involved in melancholy.

Meeting with people is awesome in every sense of the word. It can inspire you with glee. It can inspire you with happiness. It can inspire you with sadness and melancholy, but also hope.

Melancholy is no bad thing.

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically.

There's a book that's critical to understanding anxiety, a 17th-century book, 'The Anatomy of Melancholy,' by Robert Burton. I wanted to write something like that.

I think melancholy is part of the natural condition, you know. Anyway, I think it's the artist's function to have their melancholy and not hide it, you see.

I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancholy romance.

During the wintertime in cold cities, you sometimes need a party to break through the melancholy.

You know that melancholy feeling when you watch the end of a movie and you're crying - but also there is hope? I wanted that feeling in 'Monsoon.' I don't want people to be like, 'This is a really depressing EP. I just want to cry the whole way through.'

My songs have a layer of melancholy.

I'm very much drawn to melancholy and those kinds of emotions.