432 Quotes About Melancholy

He was beneath the waves, a creature crawling the ocean bottom.

I feel as if I had been born dead underAmerican bombardment.

It was that time of dusk when there is a—deepening of the interior shadows. It is a melancholy time: all you need do is switch on one lamp and the inside and the outside will separate, held apart by the reflections in the glass, and evening will begin.

She lines her eyes with the dark shades of the misunderstood and applies lip gloss in the face of tragedy.

She was stepping off the pavement into the road and she felt it, a sudden sense of dislocation, almost a sensation of something giving way. She waited for the feeling to pass but it didn’t: she returned home with it, and when she woke the next morning it was still there. She couldn’t, as she said, give a name to it, but one consequence of it was that from that day she felt she was watching life from the outside rather than being part of it.

Men do not die on mornings like this:whatever happens then happens in their name,like the lives of obscure saints, who exist only in folk memory.

Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.

Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.

Sentimental outbreaks are like liquorice; when first you suck it, it's not bad, but afterwards it leaves a very nasty taste in the mouth.