87 Melancholy Quotes for You to Enjoy

Melancholy is a state that I very much enjoy being in, actually. It's not the same as feeling sad. It's a more complex emotion; it derives from a tragic view of the world, a tragic view of art. Johann Johannsson

Sad Art World Feeling Enjoy State Melancholy Complex More Emotion Tragic Very Same Being Much View Derives Actually

I think I was kind of melancholy as a kid. I spent a lot of time inside my own head, a lot of time sort of staring into space wondering the hell was going on. John Edgar Wideman

Time Space Own Hell Think Melancholy Spent Kid Kind Inside My Own Head Sort Lot Wondering Going Staring

In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the blessed Apostle, of whom we have been speaking. John Strachan

Blessed Melancholy Bishop Presume Venerable Him Been Subject Which Deprived Apostle Speaking Compare Whom Event Applying

The tolling of yon dismal bell and the loud but solemn discharge of artillery hath announced to the nation the melancholy tidings - Thomas Jefferson no longer lives! John Tyler

Nation Thomas Thomas Jefferson Melancholy Solemn Hath Longer Announced Tidings Discharge Loud Artillery Dismal Jefferson Lives Bell

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's. Jonathan Coe

Personality Side Melancholy More Johnson Literary Tune Much

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations. Joseph Howe

Smile Matters Illustrations Melancholy May

There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned. Josh Radnor

Chronically Relationships Melancholy Abandoned Stay About Something Students Like Because Leave Same Form Lovely Then Professors

One of the first albums I can remember hearing was a Supertramp best of, with mostly 'Breakfast in America' songs on it. It's kind of the same thing as the Flaming Lips, where there are these really melancholy lyrics and melodies, yet it's extremely uplifting. They're like a nonfuturistic version of the Flaming Lips. Kevin Parker

Best Remember First Same Thing Breakfast Lyrics Melancholy Extremely Melodies Kind Songs Like Mostly Hearing Version America Lips Same Uplifting Flaming Where Really Thing Albums

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy. Mason Cooley

Melancholy Seductive Ecstasy

It is Leistikow's lasting achievement - and will always remain so - that he found a style that can express the melancholy charm of the surroundings of Berlin. We see the Grunewald lakes and those on the upper Spree through his eyes; he has taught us to see their beauty. Max Liebermann

Achievement Eyes Will Beauty Style Lasting Melancholy Those Berlin See Charm Remain Through He Always His Surroundings Upper Taught Lakes Us Express Found

Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication. Natalie Imbruglia

Too Melancholy Tendency Had Towards Since Genetic Lean None Always Been Sisters Childhood Maybe Us Suffer Ever Thing Medication

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? Oliver Goldsmith

Art Woman Too Late Guilt Men Too Late Melancholy Finds Betray Folly Charm Soothe Lovely Wash Away Her

A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life. Paul Tsongas

Life Time Joy Melancholy Also Commencement Again Then

I'm always drawn to melancholy personalities. Rene Russo

Melancholy Drawn Always Personalities

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument. Ritchie Blackmore

Miserable Melancholy Instrument Isolated Cello

No one can actually define love, but you attempt to, and the closest you can get is longing. And that itself has a melancholy to it. You can say dread, or doom - it's that feeling we all feel when we fall in love with someone: we have this horrible, fearful feeling that maybe we will never have that person in our life. Robert Zemeckis

Life Love You Will Feeling Longing Fall Our Melancholy Define Say Dread Fearful Horrible Someone Attempt Never No-One Feel Itself Person Get Closest Maybe Doom Actually

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general. Sandra Bullock

Life Human Being Every Think Melancholy General Human Being Level

I have a tremendous battle with melancholy and depression. Sebastian Faulks

Depression Battle Tremendous Melancholy

Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy. Sheila Heti

Dignity Few Melancholy Writers Push Faint Reader Coolness Away

When I'm making the music, the songs that I get most excited about definitely make me feel good, but often, it's a really good feeling combined with some kind of melancholy element. St. Lucia

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