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Quotes About Melancholy

I love Aphex Twin's 'Rhubarb.'
~ Lynne Ramsay
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
~ Charles Baudelaire
My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
~ W. H. Auden
In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.
~ David Hume
If idleness do not produce vice or malevolence, it commonly produces melancholy.
~ Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy: nothing encroaches more; I fight against it vigorously. One great remedy is, to take short views of life. Are you happy now? Are you likely to remain so till this evening? or next week? or next year? Then why destroy present happiness by a distant misery, which may never come at all, or you may never live to see it? For every substantial grief has twenty shadows, and most of them shadows of your own making.
~ Sydney Smith
Ma?o wychodzisz z domu - powiedzia?. - A tak. Jesie? mnie rozstraja. - Depresyjka? - Co? w tym rodzaju.
~ Tadeusz Konwicki
I looked out over the water, into the night that was coming in on the tide, and I felt nothing at all. The beach looked like something I had seen in an old film, once upon a time; that hotheaded boy felt like a character from some book I had read and given away in childhood. Only, somewhere far inside my spine and deep in the palms of my hands, something hummed; like a sound too low to hear, like a warning, like a cello string when a tuning fork strikes the perfect tone to call it awake.
~ Tana French
Only, somewhere far inside my spine and deep in the palms of my hands, something hummed; like a sound too low to hear, like a warning, like a cello string when a tuning fork strikes the perfect tone to call it awake.
~ Tana French
Yeah. I like Chopin. I feel like Chopin is 'emo.' Do you like Chopin?
~ Tao Lin
sad things are beautiful only from a distance
~ Tao Lin
Why Noirmoutier? He wondered as the car sped on and Mélanie hummed to "Let It Be." He had never considered himself a nostalgic person. He had never looked back. But since his divorce he had changed. Relentlessly he had found himself thinking more about the past then the present or future.
~ Tatiana de Rosnay
And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.
~ Taylor Swift
I gotta right to sing the blues,I gotta right to feel low down,I gotta right to hang aroundDown around the river.
~ Ted Koehler
Don't know whyThere's no sun up in the sky,Stormy weather,Since my man and I ain't together,Keeps rainin' all the time.
~ Ted Koehler
American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.
~ Don McLean
'Haaye ve' is a very special song that evokes many emotions.
~ Ammy Virk
I think 'Bittersweet' is one of the best songs ever written. The idea of it just really spoke to me.
~ Joshua Ostrander
There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
~ Billy Joel
Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.
~ John Ford
The depressed man lives in a depressed world.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The opening strains of "Comfortably Numb.
~ Neal Stephenson
Some of us, Daniel, are prone to a sort of melancholy, wherein we are tormented by phant'sies that other men are secretly plotting to do us injury. It is a pernicious state for a man to fall into.
~ Neal Stephenson
The far-off interest of tears.
~ Nella Larsen