87 Melancholy Quotes for You to Enjoy

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. David Hume

Men Melancholy Thrown Knees Passions Than Much Agreeable

Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you write melancholy songs like me. Del Shannon

I realized over the years if I'm writing about humor, irony, satire, I much prefer to do that in English. And if there is sorrow, melancholy, longing, I much prefer to do that in Turkish. Each language has its own strength to me, and I feel connected and attached to both Turkish and English. I dream in more than one language. Elif Safak

Strength Me Satire Writing Language Humor Longing Own Melancholy Dream About More Attached Both Feel Over Sorrow Years Than Irony Prefer Turkish Realized Much English Connected Each

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. Francis Beaumont

Nothing Sweet Melancholy Lovely Dainty

In everybody's life, there is love, there is sorrow, there is melancholy. And there might be danger as well. Gautham Menon

Life Love Everybody Melancholy Danger Sorrow Well Might

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom. George Will

Work Freedom World Space Mind Lost Sense Live Innocence State Thomas Thomas Jefferson Back Melancholy Minimal Out Something Vast Could Suppose Very American Which Work Out Jefferson Tone

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. Gunter Grass

Life Class Cause Mind Become Earner State Melancholy Finds Exception Individual Mass Wage Governed Privilege Wherever Production Phenomenon

I'm so involved in melancholy. Isaac Mizrahi

Melancholy Involved

That's one thing about fashion that you really shouldn't be-you can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it. Isaac Mizrahi

Fashion You People Melancholy Respond One Thing About Because Really Thing

Only the long melancholy call to prayer, or the wail of women over the dead, or the barking of dogs, breaks the silence which at sunset falls as a pall over Baghdad. Isabella Bird

Silence Prayer Sunset Women Long Melancholy Only Baghdad Over Dead Call Dogs Wail Falls Which Breaks Barking

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there. Ismail Merchant

Love Sadness Longing Melancholy Musicals Give Emphasis Well Always To Love

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned. Jamaica Kincaid

Alone World Melancholy Abandoned Pretend Like Sort Just

I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth. James Otis

It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks. James Payn

I like the contrast in making something that sounds sunny but also has an element of melancholy to it. Jamie xx

Melancholy Sunny Something Like Also Making Sounds Contrast Element

It is odd what notions men seem to have of the scantiness of a woman's resources. They do not find it anything out of nature that they should be able to exist by themselves; but a woman must always be borne about on somebody's shoulders, and dandled or chirped to, or it is supposed she will fall into the blackest melancholy! Jane Welsh Carlyle

Nature Woman Will Men Somebody Fall Resources Melancholy Out Must Find Able Borne Blackest About Seem Supposed She Always Odd Exist Anything Themselves Should Shoulders Notions

It's from being melancholy and having my human down experiences that I learn, that I overcome, that I transform - and these realizations I put into song. That's what I choose to put in my backpack and carry with me around the world. Jason Mraz

Me Song World Overcome Down Melancholy Backpack Carry Having Put Learn Around Human Being Experiences Transform Choose

'American Graffiti' stayed in my mind, but I don't think to this day I've done a film that captured that same level of melancholy. It was so well done. Talking about it has given me the idea I might try harder to make that melancholy film! Jean Reno

'The melancholy of all things done' is the way Buzz once described his complete mental breakdown after returning from the moon. Booze. A couple of divorces. A psych ward. Broke. At one point he was selling cars. Jeanne Marie Laskas

Lincoln prevailed: wearing his green shawl in the White House and gripped with melancholy, his feet constantly cold, he preserved a nation that had begun to unravel, often holding it together with nothing more than the flat of his hand and his unfaltering sense of human worth. Jerome Charyn

Together Worth Nation Sense Holding Nothing White White House Preserved Cold Melancholy Constantly Wearing Unravel Prevailed More Had He Feet House Lincoln His Hand Than Green Begun Often Human Flat

I think melancholy is kind of a misunderstood emotion. I don't think it's necessarily an unpleasant or bad emotion. Johann Johannsson

Think Melancholy Kind Bad Unpleasant Emotion Misunderstood Necessarily

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