432 Quotes About Melancholy

Spanish rain,A maiden’s dress,Apothecary pillsAnd ancient thrills;Melancholy killsA girl’s caress.(—Roman Payne; Valencia, Spain, November 2nd 2012)

What if you wake up one fine morning only to realize that the life you have been living since the last few days was nothing but a dream of yours?Would you go back to sleep then?I wake up each morning only to realize you're not by my side. And if this emptiness is nothing but a nightmare, let me wake up and go back to the time we were together...

I measure every Grief I meetWith narrow, probing, Eyes;I wonder if It weighs like Mine,Or has an Easier size.

We are inside soft, sweet and pure white despair.

But every time my thoughts reached this point, every time, my desire to speak would vanish. And so we remained precisely as we were, making no waves, at a standstill.

I loved him the way some people are to be loved - from a distance.

All night dark wingsflap in my heart,Each an ambition birdthat wants to be dropped.

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

Melancholy skies and empty fields of goldgrey clouds and emeralds days our love in piecescaptured only by poems (of mine).