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Quotes About Melancholy

Seven' is this kind of nostalgic, emotional folk song.
~ Aaron Dessner
Sometimes I'm sad and mostly I like sad songs.
~ Nico
Sad songs are what move people.
~ Lorrie Morgan
Some of my favorite songs are slow songs, like Guns N' Roses' 'November Rain.'
~ Chad Gilbert
It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.
~ Richard Thompson
The songs from your childhood, when you hear them you get chills all over.
~ Vanessa Paradis
I love bummer songs.
~ Ben Gibbard
I love ballads. I'm not into fast songs. I love to put my heart and all of my feelings into a song.
~ Leah LaBelle
In India, romantic and sad songs will never die.
~ Bhushan Kumar
In everybody's life, there is love, there is sorrow, there is melancholy. And there might be danger as well.
~ Gautham Menon
Fans say I have a lot of sorrow in my eyes. It's true.
~ Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective; it reminds you to feel.
~ Mick Fleetwood
Most of the songs I sing, they have that blue feeling to it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about.
~ Etta James
Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.
~ Willie Nelson
Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.
~ Etta James
I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
I have the soundtrack for 'A Clockwork Orange,' which is kind of cool. I guess I don't really end up buying a lot of modern soundtracks. Another soundtrack I love is from a French movie called 'Betty Blue.' it has some really melancholy piano work.
~ James Mercer
Songs are memories... Either u smile or get a tear in your eyes..
~ honeya
You're like a song I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew untill I heard it again
~ Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
You became moon dust in my soul, I couldn't quite brush you away because somehow you always returned to haunt my heart.
~ Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy
Nostalgia is the only acceptable form of sadness.
~ Will Advise
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
~ Samuel Johnson
Algunas veces estaba muy triste, pero durante mucho tiempo nosotros pensamos que se curaría de esa tristeza cuando se decidiera a hacerse adulto, porque la suya nos parecía una tristeza como de muchacho, la melancolía voluptuosa y despistada del muchacho que todavía no tiene los pies sobre la tierra y se mueve en el mundo árido y solitario de los sueños.
~ Natalia Ginzburg