Melancholy Quotes - Page 2

• Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.

  Aristotle

  Witty, Men

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• What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Laughter, What If, Tears

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

  Francois Fenelon

  Friendship, Soul, Bears

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• No grief so soft, no pain so sweet, as love's delicious melancholy.

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Sweet, Pain, Grief

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• Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

  Mason Cooley

  Seductive, Ecstasy

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• It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.

  Richard Steele

  Pain, Failure, Reflection

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.410

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• Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Thoughtful, Night

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• Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy.

  John Milton

  Frenzy

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 11, l. 485

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• Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beautiful, Skulls, Looks

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.52

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• 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

  Hope, Giving, Age

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• The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.

  Jean Rhys

  Friday, Sunday, Weekend

  Voyage in the Dark (1934) ch. 4, pt. 1

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• If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now.

  Leigh Hunt

  Cheerful, Inquiry, Littles

  Leigh Hunt (1856). “Leigh Hunt's Works”, p.23

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• All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

  Amelia Barr

  Change, Leaving, Aging

  Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.259, Litres

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• Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.

  William C. Bryant

  Ocean, Waste, Gray

  William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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• Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place.

  William Wordsworth

  Beauty, Grace, Happy Place

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.163

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• The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

  Rita Dove

  Thinking, Shadow, Cheerful

  Rita Dove, Earl G. Ingersoll (2003). “Conversations with Rita Dove”, p.141, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.

  John Ford

  Mind, Body, Disease

  John Ford (1985). “The Lover's Melancholy”, p.97, Manchester University Press

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• You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.

  Ovid

  Solitary, Ifs

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• Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Universe

  "Anathemas and Admirations". Book by Emil Cioran, 1987.

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• I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Sweet, Spring

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• Ah, there are moments for us here, when, seeing
  Life's inequalities, and woe, and care,
  The burdens laid upon our mortal being
  Seem heavier than the human heart can bear.

  Phoebe Cary

  Heart, Bears, Care

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• Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.

  Scott Turow

  Disappointment, Want

  Scott Turow (2002). “Reversible Errors: A Novel”, p.243, Macmillan

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• And what does the rain say at night in a small town, what does the rain have to say? Who walks beneath dripping melancholy branches listening to the rain? Who is there in the rain’s million-needled blurring splash, listening to the grave music of the rain at night, September rain, September rain, so dark and soft? Who is there listening to steady level roaring rain all around, brooding and listening and waiting, in the rain-washed, rain-twinkled dark of night?

  Jack Kerouac

  Rain, Dark, Night

  Jack Kerouac (1959). “The Town and the City”

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• The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.

  Albert Pike

  Eye, Men, Cheerful

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only melancholy; O sweetest melancholy!

  John Fletcher

  Sweet, Night, Delight

  John Fletcher, “Melancholy”

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