Quotes About Melancholy

I just sit here and look at my hands. It is one of my better evenings. Yesterday I was very depressed.

As to me, so long as I have the strength, I shall battle against Melancholy. I am not philosopher enough to reason it away, so I'll be content with singing it off.

She draws a long deep breath and hums a bit of "Sunflower Slow Drag," her fingers twitching to press imaginary keys. Soon she falls asleep.

He felt like weeping at the wrenching pleasure he derived from studying the fall of her hair

Isn't it funny what a song can do to a broken heart.

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

The music I always liked as a kid was stuff I could bum out to and realize, 'Hey, someone else feels that way, too.' So if someone can do that with my music, it's mission accomplished.

Sometimes what makes a great song is that bittersweet combination - a really heartfelt song, whether good or bad, mixed with something that gets you going.

The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.

I have a playlist for every mood.

In my fiction, there's a lot that's borrowed from music. It's never like I'm taking a lyric, but more the mood of a particular song. 'The Boy Detective Fails' was like listening to 'Eleanor Rigby' by The Beatles, this very melancholy-but-poppy song.

Generally, I walk around in a glum mood.

I'm going to have my moody times.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

My favorite kind of song is the most beautiful song that you love so much and it's so good it makes you want to cry a little bit. Any jam can sound like that on a certain day.

Cabeza de melón Había un niño taciturno, de hombre y melón un injerto. Tenía el ánimo nocturno por desear tanto estar muerto. Pero hay que tener cuidado con lo que se desea. Pues él acabó en jalea tras un pisotón bien dado.

Robert Burton was right: maps are a certain cure for melancholy.

There's a sad feeling in a place people have just walked out of and left behind.

It's how I fill the time when nothing's happening, thinking too much, flirting with melancholy

It's sadness coming on like the old days, the vast seamless hopeless weight of sadness looking for a place to rest.

Sentimental memories were like sugar-water icicles.

There was a marvelous, dark lyricism in his voice, the kind of defiance that is rooted in deep loneliness.

My melancholy thoughts are back. But I still love the idea of love.

From the windows, through the fur of snow, the landscape became more melancholy when the sun successfully brightened the quiet trees, unable to speak without their leaves.