432 Quotes About Melancholy

No one explains this to you, he thought. That there are so many things without solution.

What came first _ the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music?

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.

I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry.Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.

Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake.

You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down

--perhaps monsters were misunderstood gods; deities with plans too grand for humans; a phantom of evil that drank from the roots of good.