Melancholy Quotes - Page 7

• Diabetes is caused by melancholy.

  Thomas Willis

  Diabetes

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• A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding its resonance and beauty so great as to demand another reading. As I read, I found myself devastated by the thoroughness of the book's annihilating sensibility and revived by the beauty of its language, the complexity of its design, the melancholy, horror and stoic sympathy in its rendering of what we used to call the human condition.

  Michael Silverblatt

  Reading, Book, Design

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• If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.

  Gunter Grass

  Age, Dawn, Principles

  "From the Diary of a Snail". Book by Gunter Grass, www.theguardian.com. 1972.

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• Dance with all the might of your body, and all the fire of your soul, in order that you may shake all melancholy out of your liver; and you need not restrain yourself with the apprehension that any lady will have the least fear that the violence of your movements will ever shake anything out of your brains.

  Lola Montez

  Fire, Order, Dancing

  Lola Montez (1858). “The Arts of Beauty: Or, Secrets of a Lady's Toilet”, p.114

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• Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Yellow, Green

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. [108]

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• I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying of the year and mystery as well.

  Kyffin Williams

  Sadness, Autumn, Years

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• Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.

  Jean Rhys

  Sometimes, Life Is, Moments

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• We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the mass society created by capitalism. Every system, by virtue as much of its abstract nature as of its pretension to totality, is the enemy of life. As a forgotten Spanish poet, José Moreno Villa, put it with melancholy wit: "I have discovered in symmetry the root of much iniquity."

  Octavio Paz

  Life, Roots, Individuality

  Octavio Paz (1987). “1904-1912”, San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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• Munch writes poetry with color. He has taught himself to see the full potential of color in art His use of color is above all lyrical. He feels color and he reveals his feelings through colors; he does not see them in isolation. He does not just see yellow, red and blue and violet; he sees sorrow and screaming and melancholy and decay.

  Sigbjørn Obstfelder

  Art, Writing, Blue

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• I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next... of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

  Gunter Grass

  Progress, Tails, Coins

  "Diary of a Snail (On Stasis and Progress)". Book by Gunter Grass, 1972.

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• Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay.

  Samuel Rogers

  Gay, May, Madness

  'To - , 1814'

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• Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Science, Men, Genius

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• There is a melancholy which accompanies all enthusiasm.

  Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

  Enthusiasm, Accompany

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• Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

  Victor Hugo

  Being Sad, Pleasure And Happiness

  Victor Hugo (1888). “Toilers of the sea”

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• A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of it's complete egoism. I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remorse, but never sorrow. Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else.

  Francoise Sagan

  Sad, Beautiful, Regret

  FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”

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

  Ray Bradbury

  Philosophical, Thinking, Men

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Dec 13, 2015

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• Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to me a lot, actually - the melancholy of the situation becomes more front and center.

  Mike White

  Writing, Pages, Sometimes

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• Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well.

  Stephen Dillane

  Thinking, Joy, Moments

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.

  Willard Gaylin

  Quality, Guilt, Essentials

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• I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.

  Arielle Dombasle

  Taste, Kind, Victim

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety; old crotchets and most sweet closes. It shall be humorous, grave, fantastic, amorous, melancholy, sprightly, one in all, and all in one.

  John Marston

  Song, Sweet, Humorous

  John Marston (2014). “The Malcontent”, p.82, A&C Black

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• America, the Idea of: We yearned for its beer and jazz, its smoke-filled nightclubs, its Edward Hopper bars, the melancholy of rainy Manhattan Gershwin nights... the America we yearned for has gone. Did it ever exist?

  Michael Bywater

  Beer, Night, Ideas

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• I am sometimes accused by my peers of printing my pictures too dark. All I can say is that it goes with the mood of melancholy that is induced by witnessing at close quarters such intractable situations of conflict and joylessness.

  Don McCullin

  Dark, Peers, Sometimes

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• There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  History, Presidential, Environmental

  Theodore Roosevelt, H. W. Brands (2001). “African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-naturalist”, p.21, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.

  William Wordsworth

  Cuckoos, Firsts, Cry

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.174

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