Quotes About Melancholic

Hip-hop, pop, dance - the common point is melancholy. That's international, and I like this word because it's not only about sadness or happiness - it's both at the same time. And that's human, and that's life.

The sanatorium itself was charming, a group of cabins in the woods, a place for overworked urbanites to feel pleasantly melancholic. A slackertorium.

I think my songwriting might be a little more on the darker side maybe.

The time of the year has come when on warm summer days Each flower spreads its scent like a censer of gold The sounds and fragrances in harmony enfold The melancholic languor of the evening haze

I don't really consider my music anything other than 'moody.' I don't know if that's a genre.

If people are really hateful and disgusting in the way they treat other people, that probably came from a hurt place - but then, when does it stop? When does this spiral end? Sometimes you can get pretty melancholic about that.

Kochiyama had a compulsion to help others, and was adamant that she not be the center of attention, which was admirable but also gave me pause; made me question if there was something inherently Asian and female about her selflessness, which probably betrays my own internalized chauvinism and my own rather predictable preference for the melancholic poet or the messianic hero rather than organizers, like Kochiyama, who worked tirelessly behind the scenes.

I consider myself a Nordic author. But I do not know exactly what that is. I think it has something to do with time, landscapes, weather and language: a slow melancholic attitude, interrupted by dramatic emotions, like a stone in water.

The character I played on 'Everwood' was so serious and melancholic that after doing it for four years, it really started affecting my soul. I was becoming Ephram.

For a decade, Emma-Lee Moss has been steadily making weird, moody, melancholic music under the moniker 'Emmy the Great' that has been referred to as nue-folk, anti-folk, synthpop, and, most of all, literary.

What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles.

I'm a cynical person who's normally attracted to the dark side of things.

I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more # romantic than the present day

If you wanted to be cheerful, or melancholic, or wistful, or thoughtful, or courteous, you simply had to act those things with every gesture.

If you wanted to be cheerful, or melancholic, or wistful, or thoughtful, or courteous, you simply

In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself.

I think that I make chords when I paint, so I think you would be listening to the cello. It's deep, and it's resonant. A lot of people have compared me to Brahms - that slightly melancholic sensuality that's highly structured. Well, that describes my work right there.

The travel, the sex, the writing, the romances, were—so Norman Sherry suggests—all attempts by Greene to relieve his depression. He was an authentic melancholic.

Something almost too overt about the pathos of the posture: this exact position was illustrated in some melancholic Watteau-era print on the frontispiece to Yevtuschenko's Field Guide to Clinical States.

I'm often in Venice in November and December, when it's foggy and wintry, and the decorations in the shops and the lights in the churches make the place feel both Christmassy and melancholic.

I don't dig the candy floss and rosy kind of film subjects. Give me anything dark and grey!

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

And then, don't forget that I am not a born melancholic. The general nickname I have in this neighborhood is " `t schildermenneke," [The little painter fellow] and it is not without a certain dose of malice that I go abroad.

She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth through the text of my life, returning again and again to the events that mark me in the eyes of my more astute colleagues, as bearing all the characteristics of the classic melancholic.