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Quotes About Melancholic

I think it's mainly the language barrier and the cultural barrier, but of course also my songs, they have been very serious and melancholic, and so maybe people need to see more of my bubbly side and my personality.
~ Saara Aalto
I love bleak things.
~ Denise Mina
He has the expression of someone who wishes the rain would stop.
~ Will Christopher Baer
I'm a very melancholic kind of person. I don't know why; I think certain people are born a certain way.
~ Lykke Li
I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.
~ Anton Corbijn
Do people think Swedes are cool? I think they think you're cool in spite of you being Swedish. But the good thing with being Swedish is that we're melancholic.
~ Johan Renck
I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.
~ Maira Kalman
seguirás siendo alguien muy ridícula, muy melancólica, pintoresca y graciosa durante unos minutos, fatigante y atrozmente aburrida en la convivencia diaria.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
useless characters, pointless details, frequent digressions regarding his own unremarkable, woeful self...
~ Aleksandar Hemon
Where has thou been all the dumb winter days When neither sunlight was nor smile of flowers, Neither life, nor love, nor frolic, Only expanse melancholic, With never a note of thy exhilarating lays?
~ Alfred Austin
Melancholic, although often sardonic, mixtures of emoitions-foreboding, aloneness, regret, and a dark sense of lost destiny and ill-used passions-are woven throughout Byron's most autobiographical poems, especially Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Lara, and Manfred. Perturbed and constant motion, coupled with a brooding awareness of life's impermanence, also mark the transient and often bleak nature of Byron's work.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
I am no fun at all. In fact, I am anti-fun. Not as in anti-violence, but as in anti-matter. I am not so much against fun - although I suppose I kind of am - as I am the opposite of fun. I suck the fun out of a room. Or perhaps I'm just a different kind of fun; the kind that leaves on bereft of hope; the kind of fun that ends in tears.
~ David Rakoff
The first album is dark and introspective - tailor made for England.
~ Curt Smith
I think it'd be great if Prince made an album of just romantic, slow ballads.
~ Moby
O brilho dos seus olhos fora substituído por uma suavidade sonhadora e melancólica; eles já não davam a impressão de olhar para os objetos que a rodeavam: pareciam sempre olhar para longe, bem longe — como se fixos fora deste mundo.
~ Emily Bronte
Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.
~ Matt Bellamy
I do think I tend to have a darker nature than most.
~ Fairuza Balk
The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on the one hand he was a melancholic with a loathing for mankind, on the other, some paralysis had twisted his mouth into a permanent and radiant smile. So everyone he met, being warmed by his smile, would shout him a happy greeting. And beaming upon them with his sunny face he would curse them all to hell.
~ Laurie Lee
I'm by nature kind of a glum person, but I'm not a sad pathetic
~ Billy Corgan
Usually, I'm only sad when something sad happens. I am not a melancholic person. I like to live very much in the present. If I was an animal, I'd be a little cat. They like to live life.
~ Monica Bellucci
People become melancholic when they start thinking about life. They become cynics because they see what other people do with life.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.
~ Edward Abbey
Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.
~ Karl Abraham
I love being on stage. I'm completely, totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.
~ Robert Powell