432 Quotes About Melancholy

… so delicate, but potent. It makes us a bit more human--is that ache in your heart for a place [or someone] that no longer exists... a sneaky magician. One that takes us by surprise in the most lucid way possible.

I don't know what it is that you expect of me, but we're here. I have always had little room to explore and yet you are determined to dig into me. But I encourage you to find whatever it is that you must explore within me

You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't beThe familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skinYour head's under water when you learned to swimOn a road to hell, congratulations, you're free...

And truths, these days, are spokenThe same way promises are made,With gritted teeth and crossed fingers.

Memories come back, pressing in on you, like ghost faces in the darkness pushing up the glass, trying to get into the lit room.

My world is a million shattered pieces put together, glued by my tears, where each piece is nothing but a reflection of YOU.

Sage of old held desire as sufferingBut suffering is desire as known to me

She made him yearn for a future his kind could never have, and a connection he sure as hell didn’t deserve.

I thought I would marry my boyfriend and grow old and sick of him. I thought I would keep my friends, and we'd make different, new memories. None of that happened. Better things happened. Then why am I so sad?