432 Quotes About Melancholy

There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.

Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this principle; tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. This is the source also of the melancholy which is inseparable from the sweetest melody. The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

You are scattered like autumn in my backyard

It might be high summer all about but inside me everything is fall. The lonesomeness of a sad, slow closing of days, knowing frost is nigh and wind needling through the cabin chinks is just around the bend. That's me, right now.

Dogs were generally incompatible with melancholy.

So new to him,' she muttered, 'so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!

Everytime you enter the melancholic tunnel of unrequited love, you will get out of that tunnel with a less cheerful heart but with a more mature mind!

All good things come to an end and the pain of some endings isn't worth the good things.

Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.