432 Quotes About Melancholy

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.

My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.

So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.

I then supped with my companions, with whom I was soon after to part for ever - always a most melancholly, death-like idea - a sort of separation of soul; for all the regret which follows those from whom fate separates us, seems to be something torn from ourselves.