87 Melancholy Quotes for You to Enjoy

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. Anatole France

Life Change Before Changes Melancholy Enter Ourselves Must Part Most Another Leave Die Behind Us Even

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. Maurice Chevalier

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. Baruch Spinoza

Music Time Good Same Thing Melancholy Those Bad Neither Indifferent Deaf Nor Mourn Same Same Time Who Thing

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness. Gunter Grass

I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries. M. J. Rose

Sad Musicians Sometimes Dreamers Wine Long Mysteries Walks Sweet Think Melancholy City Seductive Enticing Paris Writers Smells She Always Yes Curious Just Artists Senses Lovers Fantasies

There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks. Richard D. James

Melancholy Tracks Lot

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. Samuel Johnson

Drinking Every Melancholy Indeed Diverted Should Means

I am a melancholy type of person. Alexander McQueen

Type Melancholy Am Person

You know that melancholy feeling when you watch the end of a movie and you're crying - but also there is hope? I wanted that feeling in 'Monsoon.' I don't want people to be like, 'This is a really depressing EP. I just want to cry the whole way through.' Amber Mark

You can achieve one thing, but because of that, you have to adapt or lose something else. If you end up in a relationship, you sometimes have to lose the closeness of your friendships, for example, or you have to move away somewhere... For me, that creates the sense of melancholy which I think exists in most people's lives. Andrew Haigh

Me Relationship You People Sometimes Achieve Example Somewhere Lose Sense Think Else Melancholy One Thing Something Something Else For Example Most Because Exists End Up Friendships Closeness Move Which Creates Your Away Lives Thing Adapt

My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do. Anne Stevenson

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. Charles Lamb

Man Rare Recipe Melancholy Must Dull Fleet Who Street

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me. Charlie Hunnam

Me Think Films Melancholy Way Slightly Were Escaping Child

There's a certain darkness to Slipknot, but at the same time, there's a very strong dose of positivity. Stone Sour is the same way. There's a certain melancholy that comes with the slower stuff, but at the end of the day there's also that other side that is very positive. It's all how you deliver. Corey Taylor

Positive Time Day You Strong Darkness End Of The Day Other Side Melancholy Way Positivity Slower Deliver Stuff Also How Sour End Very Same Stone Same Time Dose Certain

In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy. Daniel Boone

Impossible Diversity Melancholy Should

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need. David Guterson

Me Melancholy Cities Tension Produce Need

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