Melancholy Quotes

The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.

Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.

Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the ...

Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolute...

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn,...

I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself wa...

That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I...

We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground...

Years have passed, I suppose. I'm not really counting them anymore. But I think of this thing often:...

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do ...

Ah God! to see the branches stir Across the moon at Grantchester! To smell the thrilling-sweet and r...

Nothing is forever, he thought beyond closed eyelids somewhere over Asia Minor. Maybe unhappiness is...

After much effort to live up to a glorious standard there came fatigue, wan hope, and boredom. I exp...

The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling — a somehow melancholy feeling. He was...

Depression is melancholy minus its charms.

I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the t...

Here rests his head upon the lap of earthA youth to fortune and to fame unknown.Fair Science frowned...

Well, here I am, just come home; a fellow gone to the bad; though I had the best intentions in the w...

To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses ...

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

Pale, with dark hair, the one who is coming is melancholy, romantic. And I am arch and fluent and ca...

The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your...

If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy...

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.But he never liked anyone who--our friends...

Poor little place,' he murmured with a sigh.She heard him. He said the most melancholy things, but s...

The lost glove is happy.

Solitude appeared to me as the only fit state of man.

Name me no names for my disease,With uninforming breath;I tell you I am none of these,But homesick u...

Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sa...

Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the per...

Oh, Mercédès, I have spoken your name with sighs of melancholy, with groans of pain and with the cro...

Maybe all Americans who suffer from melancholy act as if they have gone mad. But I truly thought he ...

That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itsel...

My prayers, my tears, my wishes, fears, and lamentations, were witnessed by myself and heaven alone....

And did with sighs their fate deplore,Since I must shelter them no more;And if before my joys were s...

I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play ...

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, an...

Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, ...

I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wa...

When people call it that I always get pissed off because I always think depression sounds like you j...

She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth...

Out on the lawn, Bunny had just knocked Henry's ball about seventy feet outside the court. There was...

I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just ...

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not be...

To muse for long unwearied hours with my attention riveted to some frivolous device upon the margin,...

Cyrano: The leaves---Roxane: What color---Perfect Venetian red! Look at them fall.Cyrano: Yes---they...

I thought once how Theocritus had sungOf the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years,Who each one...

She dried her tears, and they did smileTo see her cheeks’ returning glow;Nor did discern how all the...

I measure every Grief I meetWith narrow, probing, Eyes;I wonder if It weighs like Mine,Or has an Eas...

In any case, there was only one tunnel, dark and lonely, mine, the tunnel in which I had spent my ch...

His day, usually a jelly-like creature, a shapeless, spineless thing, had attained Mesozoic structur...

I only wanted absolute quiet to think out why I had developed a sad attitude toward sadness, a melan...

There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aiml...

Under the glass porte-cochère of a theatre Amory stood, watching the first great drops of rain splat...

A light which lives on what the flames devour,a grey landscape surrounding me with scorch,a crucifix...

Anonymous > Quotes > Quotable Quote“I see life as a roadside inn where I have to stay until the coac...

He cries behind his wall, I think, and no one knows, not even he. And no one will ever know, and in ...

It is warm, I am alive, I am calm and sad, I hardly know why. In this existence so even, so tranquil...

Then he remembered his wedding, the old times, the first pregnancy of his wife; he, too, had been ve...

Perhaps she would have liked to confide all these things to someone. But how tell an undefinable une...

The cloudless day is richer at its close;A golden glory settles on the lea;Soft, stealing shadows hi...

The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this e...

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or c...

No one was irritable; we have never known anyone to remain unhappy while digesting a good meal. We e...

He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever in...

Sentimental outbreaks are like liquorice; when first you suck it, it's not bad, but afterwards it le...

Concha would cry when she found out I was dead, she should have no taste for life for months afterwa...

Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that qu...

Dogs were generally incompatible with melancholy.

I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pit...

Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but ...

Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph that liv'st unseenWithin thy airy shellBy slow Meander's margent green,An...

So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it...

That's most interesting. But I was no more a mind-reader then than today. Iwas weeping for an altoge...

She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have...

He suffered greatly from being shut up among all these people whose stupidity and absurdities wounde...

Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous.

I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire.

, And you, ye stars,Who slowly begin to marshal,As of old, the fields of heaven,Your distant, melanc...

Tom began screaming, and I wondered if the baby's soft brain was, in this moment, changing shape in ...

I wrote when I did not know life;now that I know life, I have no more to say.

A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-p...