Melancholy Quotes - Page 9

• To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Love Is, Men, Misunderstood

  Entry for May 27, 1849, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this demon out, it’s so visceral because the melancholy has to be drummed out. I can’t let it sit inside me.

  Florence Welch

  Way, Exorcism, Demon

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• Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty, as gratefulness; but primarily as longing and wistful melancholy.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Humility, Serenity, Veils

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• Melancholy is no bad thing.

  Sting

  Bad Things

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• The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause.

  Edward Young

  Echoes, Whispering, World

  Edward Young (1824). “The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality”, p.227

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• As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon of melancholy.

  Darcey Steinke

  Mother, Children, Together

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• Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to have been so widely credentialed, and its young members so fetishize the work beloved by their teachers that their work ceases to talk about anything else. Instead of enlarging our view of being human, it contains safe rehashing of received ideas about received ideas. This is a melancholy romance with artistic ruins, homesickness for a bygone era. This yearning may be earnest, but it stunts their work, and by turn the broader culture.

  Jerry Saltz

  Teacher, Art, School

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• Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a dangerous ledge off the lighthouse island floats in on the still air the gentle trolling of a warning bell as it swings on the rocking buoy; it might be tolling for the passing of summer and sweet weather with that persistent, pensive chime.

  Celia Thaxter

  Summer, Sweet, Laughter

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• I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and is always thrilling.

  May Sarton

  Autumn, Long, October

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one of the dearest employments of his life to select and pursue a companion, and joins to possession the keenest pleasure, to rivalry the fiercest rage, and to solicitude an eternal melancholy. What more could be needed to suffuse the world with the deepest meaning and beauty?

  George Santayana

  Love, Sex, Powerful

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Lazy, Laziness, Wander

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.843

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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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• 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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• Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.

  Ana Castillo

  Mexico, Embrace

  Norma Alarcón, Ana Castillo, Cherríe Moraga (1989). “Third Woman”

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• The fact is, that of all God's gifts to the sight of man, color, is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. We speak rashly of gay color and sad color, for color cannot at once be good and gay. All good color is in some degree pensive, the loveliest is melancholy, and the purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.

  Thomas Starr King

  Gay, Thoughtful, Men

  Thomas Starr King (1864). “The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry”, p.178

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• It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with me.

  Mary Kingsley

  Fate, People, Opinion

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• Why has no one written a November rhapsody with plenty of lilt and swing? The poets who are moved at all by this month seem only stirred to lamentation, giving us year end and 'melancholy days' remarks, thereby showing that theory is stronger than observation among the rhyming brotherhood, or else that they have chronic indigestion and no gardens to stimulate them.

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  Garden, Swings, Years

  Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”

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• When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Interest, Persons, One Thing

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• There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Hallucinations, Wilderness, Moonlight

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Industry is the enemy of melancholy

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Enemy, Industry

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• If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare,
  One cordial in this melancholy vale,
  'T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair
  In other's arms breathe out the tender tale

  Robert Burns

  Heaven, Arms, Pairs

  Robert Burns, Robert Chambers (1838). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. To which are Now Added, Notes Illustrating Historical, Personal, and Local Allusions. [The Editor's Preface Signed: R. C., I.e. Robert Chambers.]”, p.42

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