432 Quotes About Melancholy

Men who read a lot have a more sensitive disposition, added Fowler. [...]I did not know what to say to this.Maybe reading is a sort of curse is all I mean, concluded Fowler. Maybe it's better for a man to stay inside his own mind.Amen, I felt like saying, although I do not know why.

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

...and since, human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars

I felt lonely, and in full possession of my loneliness. It was the first time I had owned anything of value.

What if you are just destined to get hurt, to be helplessly stuck in a point of time you no longer want to be? Maybe life is all about trying to get up while you fall a little bit deeper in the pits of hell, each time you try not to...

She dried her tears, and they did smileTo see her cheeks’ returning glow;Nor did discern how all the whileThat full heart throbbed to overflow.With that sweet look and lively tone,And bright eye shining all the day,They could not guess, at midnight loneHow she would weep the time away.

But when she finally got the wings to fly she realized she had nowhere else to go to...

You know what's worse than leaving? Returning. Telling yourself that your experiences are over and it's time to go home. Finding everything just as you left it. Nothing has changed. Except ourselves.

Only more pain can kill pain