Melancholy Quotes - Page 17

• At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Morning, Moon, Twenties

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Book House (2016). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.62, Book House

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• I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.

  John Derbyshire

  Loneliness, Compassion, Soul

  "The Guillotining of John Derbyshire". Interview with Alex Kurtagic, www.amren.com. April 12, 2012.

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

  Ismail Merchant

  Sad, Giving Up, Never Give Up On Love

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• ... there could be talking bunny rabbits, spiders who write English messages in their webs, and for that matter, melancholy choo-choo trains. There could be, I suppose, but there aren't-so my theory doesn't have to explain them.

  Daniel Dennett

  Writing, Talking, Religion

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• The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.

  Homer

  Evil, Joy, Suffering

  Homer (2015). “The Odyssey”, p.563, Homer

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• A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.

  William James

  Pain, Spring, Loss

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.140, Courier Corporation

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• Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.

  Emile M. Cioran

  World, Ends, Yearning

  "A Short History of Decay". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1949.

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• A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood.

  Ben H. Winters

  Depression, Blue, Blood

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• I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  War, Tears, Legs

  Louisa May Alcott, O. Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter, Charles Dickens (2016). “CLASSICS FOR CHRISTMAS: 180+ Novels, Christmas Tales, Poems & Carols in One Volume (Illustrated): The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, Christmas Bells, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Mistletoe Bough, The Wonderful Life of Christ¦”, p.7033, e-artnow

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

  Paul Tsongas

  Life, Joy, Inspire

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• How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with a reality itself, and believed that a photograph of these appearances to be a photograph of it. It is a melancholy truth that I will never be able to photograph it and can only fail. I am a reflection photographing other reflections within a reflection. To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.

  Duane Michals

  Confused, Believe, Reflection

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• There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Heart, Reflection, Gravity

  Walter Savage Landor (1846). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.114

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• It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things.

  Alexander McQueen

  Cycle Of Life, Giving, Important

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• Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Book, Reading, Relief

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• It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally exposed to danger whether the government have too much power or too little power and that the line which divides these extremes should be so inaccurately defined by experience.

  James Madison

  Reflection, Government, Liberty

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?

  Nick Hornby

  Music, Records, Firsts

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• Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Fate, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy

  Kyffin Williams

  Autumn

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• We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a red bushy brow, while the right eye disappeared entirely under an enormous wart-of those straggling teeth with breaches here and there like the battlements of a fortress-of that horny lip, over which one of those teeth projected like the tusk of an elephant-of that forked chin-and, above all, of the expression diffused over the whole-that mixture of malice, astonishment, and melancholy. Let the reader, if he can, figure to himself this combination.

  Victor Hugo

  Horse, Eye, Expression

  Victor Hugo (18??). “The Novels of Victor Hugo: Profusely Illustrated with Elegant Wood Engravings”

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• These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.

  Victor Hugo

  Attitude, Hands, Greek

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• People think I'm really melancholy and romantic and all whispery. I'm not at all. I'm very direct.

  Norah Jones

  Thinking, People, Direct

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• We will enjoy ourselves with the forms that are given us: a human face, a hand, the breast of a woman or the body of a man, a glad or sorrowful expression, the infinite seas, the wild rocks, the melancholy language of the black trees in the snow, the wild strength of spring flowers and the heavy lethargy of a hot summer day when Pan, our old friend, sleeps and the ghosts of midday whisper. This alone is enough to make us forget the grief of the world, or to give it form.

  Max Beckmann

  Summer, Spring, Grief

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• The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy that it would be dangerous, considering their numbers.

  George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

  Men, Numbers, Would Be

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• Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.

  John Donne

  Spirit, Spirit Of God

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• While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk, and then in octaves by the violins and violas, it is a melancholy and contemplative tune.

  Bear McCreary

  Lonely, Tunes, Violin

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