432 Quotes About Melancholy

His day, usually a jelly-like creature, a shapeless, spineless thing, had attained Mesozoic structure. It was marching along surely, even jauntily, toward a climax, as a play should, as a day should. He dreaded the moment when the backbone of the day should be broken, when he should have met the girl at last, talked to her, and then bowed her laughter out the door, returning only to the melancholy dregs in the teacups and the gathering staleness of the uneaten sandwiches.

(The rain and the smell of nightpulled at me. Confused me.) Everything means a choice,she had said, getting one thing and losing one. The love stillheld me, but all at once I could, despite the rain, admitto myself what I really wanted was this clarity.

Today I have come for a duel. Let's see which is greater - your depth or the depth of my sorrows.

He missed two people: a) the girl she was; b) the person she’d made him feel he might have been. A deep sigh escaped him.

What went wrong? That is the question, and not "To be or not to be," for all of Shakespeare.

How long does a person wait before they let go of the one they love?

Her voice was soft and numinous, as befitted any Aizian singer, yet it was not just bells and melody. There was something else in her tune, a strand of solemnity that no Aizian could possess, for it yearned for something far away, whereas Aizians needed only open their eyes to behold the greatest wonders. Yes, she was in Aizai now, but she hadn’t always been, and for how much longer was impossible to say.

I wrote when I did not know life;now that I know life, I have no more to say.

We [of Thelema] are whole-hearted extroverts; the penalty of restricting oneself is anything from neurosis to down right lunacy; in particular, melancholia.