Melancholy Quotes - Page 21

• When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

  Francois Truffaut

  Funny, Humor, Wonderful

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• When the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, And hides the green hill in an April shroud; Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose.

  John Keats

  Morning, Flower, Fall

  'Ode on Melancholy' (1820) st. 2

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• Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Ancient, Symbols

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

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• He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their life is done.

  Pierre Corneille

  Fate, Soul, Age

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• The gentle rain which waters my beans and keeps me in the house today is not drear and melancholy, but good for me too. Though it prevents my hoeing them, it is of far more worth than my hoeing. If it should continue so long as to cause the seeds to rot in the ground and destroy the potatoes in the low lands, it would still be good for the grass on the uplands, and, being good for the grass, would be good for me, too.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Rain, Land

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.95, Xist Publishing

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• It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

  David Guterson

  Brooding

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• The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Character, Past, News

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• Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.

  Alexis Carrel

  Strength, Prayer, Real

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• I find beauty in melancholy.

  Alexander McQueen

  Inspirational, Relatable

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• I don't see that many movies where people are depicting middle-class suburban life in a more textured way. My feelings about the suburbs are not so wonderful, so my movies tend to be a little melancholy.

  Greg Mottola

  People, Feelings, Wonderful

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• I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Atmosphere, Sorrow, Felt

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.174, Wordsworth Editions

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• I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Sadness, Drawing, People

  Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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• All green was anished sae of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue; Sae the green holly with its berries red, And the green moss that o'er the grael spread.

  George Crabbe

  Hollies, Moss, Yew

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• ... she indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Luxury

  Charles Dickens (1858). “Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.68

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• It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Eye, Imperfect Things, Poetry

  "L'art romantique". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1869.

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• As the romance of manned space exploration has waned, the drive today is to find our living, thinking counterparts in the universe. For all the excitement, however, the search betrays a profound melancholy - a lonely species in a merciless universe anxiously awaits an answering voice amid utter silence.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Lonely, Thinking, Space

  "Are We Alone in the Universe?". jewishworldreview.com. December 30, 2011.

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• We are earth's children, and life is the same in sap as in blood; all that the earth, our mother, feels and expresses to the eye by her form and aspect, in melancholy or in splendor, finds an echo within us.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Mother, Children, Eye

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty...”, p.13

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• The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

  Arnold Bennett

  Depression, Inspirational Life, Worry

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• Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape from society but also was an ideal stage for the Romantic individual to exercise the cult that he frequently made of his own soul. The solitude and total freedom of the wilderness created a perfect setting for either melancholy or exultation.

  Roderick Nash

  Exercise, Men, Perfect

  Roderick Nash (2001). “Wilderness and the American Mind”, p.47, Yale University Press

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• Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy.

  Scott Joplin

  Wall, Feelings, Panic

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• Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly? Oh! rather, bird, with me Through this fair land rejoice!

  Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

  Sea, Land, Voice

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• I'd like to combine melancholy and sunshine... There's a sadness in Provence which no one has expressed... I'd like to put reason in the grass and tears in the sky, like Poussin.

  Paul Cezanne

  Sadness, Sunshine, Sky

  "Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne: A Memoir with Conversations". Book by Joachim Gasquet, Thames and Hudson, London, p. 211 in: 'What he told me - III. The Studio', 1991.

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• Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

  Arthur Helps

  Spring, Despair, Mountain

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• He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.

  Horace Walpole

  Taken, Soul, Possession

  Horace Walpole (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace Walpole (Illustrated)”, p.96, Delphi Classics

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• The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the advantages which solitude is capable of affording, the mind must not be impelled to it by melancholy and discontent, but by a real distaste to the idle pleasures of the world, a rational contempt for the deceitful joys of life, and just apprehensions of being corrupted and seduced by its insinuating and destructive gayeties.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Real, Joy, Solitude

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