432 Quotes About Melancholy

Soms, als ze in het bleke schemerdonker over straat slenterde met de bitterzoete geur van stof en bloemen - lenteavonden met verlichte ramen en de langgerekte kreten voor het avondeten, wanneer de huiszwaluwen zich buitelend boven de stad verzamelden en samen naar hun nesten vlogen en de lucht leeg en wijd achterlieten - in die lange lenteschemer welde er een soort weemoed in haar op en verstarde haar hart, stokte bijna.

să ne amețimsă ne amintim de bucureștisă fim melancolici timp de cinci minuteși apoi să ne întoarcem la ale noastresă plecăm

She dwells with Beauty—Beauty that must die;And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lipsBidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh,Turning to poison while the bee-mouth sips:Ay, in the very temple of DelightVeil’d Melancholy has her sovran shrine,Though seen of none save him whose strenuous tongueCan burst Joy’s grape against his palate fine;His soul shalt taste the sadness of her might,And be among her cloudy trophies hung.

The unicorn was so startled and so happy to hear her name spoken at last that she overlooked the remark about the horse. "Oh, you know me!" she cried, and the breath of her delight blew the butterfly twenty feet away.

Echter Humor ist die Antwort auf Melancholie, um eben diese zu überwinden.

The earth hangs heavy beneath me.

Fucking Ireland. Its smiling fiends. Its speaking rocks. Its haunted fields. Its sea memory. Its wildness and strife. Its haunt of melancholy. Its haunt of melancholy.

Some of us, Daniel, are prone to a sort of melancholy, wherein we are tormented by phant'sies that other men are secretly plotting to do us injury. It is a pernicious state for a man to fall into.

We crossed the bridge and didn't even see the water underneath.