Melancholy Quotes - Page 24

• This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

  Dante Alighieri

  Life, Soul, Sorrow

  "Inferno", III. 3 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.

  Emile Durkheim

  Life, Sad, Taken

  Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.333, Routledge

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• Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods, And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt, And night by night the monitory blast Wails in the key-hole, telling how it pass'd O'er empty fields, or upland solitudes, Or grim wide wave; and now the power is felt Of melancholy, tenderer in its moods Than any joy indulgent Summer dealt.

  William Allingham

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  William Allingham (1854). “Day and Night Songs”

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• Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

  Duke of Wellington

  Peace, War, Battle

  Letter from the field of Waterloo in June 1815. "The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo" by Edward Shepherd Creasy, 1851.

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• True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.

  Ben Jonson

  Perfect, Fine, Wit

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1875). “The Works of Ben Jonson: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a Biographical Memoir”, p.63

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• There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

  Alexander McQueen

  Inspirational, Sadness, Thinking

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• It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hunting, Luck, Strange

  In Hester Lynch Piozzi 'Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson' (1786) p. 206

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• In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.

  John Milton

  Ayurveda, Quality, Hue

  Samson Agonistes Preface

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• Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Mother, Memories

  Henry Van Dyke (2015). “Little Rivers”, p.125, eKitap Projesi

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• Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.

  William Shakespeare

  Jewels, Mind, Opal

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• I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.

  Edward Gibbon

  Taken, Future, Recovery

  'Memoirs of My Life' (1796) ch. 8 (on the completion of 'Decline and Fall')

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• Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

  Leigh Hunt

  Love, Monsters, Telescopes

  Leigh Hunt, Thornton Leigh Hunt (1862). “The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt”, p.31, London : Smith, Elder

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• Come, let us give a little time to folly... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.

  Bonaventure

  Change, Giving, Littles

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• The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.

  Beaumont Newhall

  Photography, People, Fundamentals

  Beaumont Newhall (1982). “The history of photography: from 1839 to the present”, Bulfinch Press

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• I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Wine, Glasses, Fancy

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.99, Jerome K. Jerome

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• When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and the seas shall be frozen over, and the icecap shall have crept downward to the equator from either pole . . . when all the cities shall have long been dead and crumbled into dust, and all life shall be on the last verge of extinction on this globe; then, on a bit of lichen, growing on the bald rocks beside the eternal snows of Panama, shall be seated a tiny insect, preening its antennae in the glow of the worn-out sun, the sole survivor of animal life on this our earth - a melancholy bug.

  William Jacob Holland

  Life, Animal, Moon

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