432 Quotes About Melancholy





  • Author Alain de Botton
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    Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.

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  • Author John Green
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    Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In the beginning she haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my memory and everyone else's, dying again.

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  • Author Jude Morgan
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    There can be few places more conducive to the quiet, solitary contemplation of melancholy thoughts than a window-seat; and if beyond the window-panes there is a steely vignette of November murk and withered twigs, so much the better.

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  • Author Sait Faik Abasıyanık
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    Sizi bekliyorum. Sizi göreceğim; içimde bir şey koşacak. Siz görmeden geçeceksiniz. Ben kederle sevinci duyup dalacağım istediğim aleme. Dünyayı yeniden kederlerle kuracağım.

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  • Author Joaquín Sabina
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    Incluso en estos tiemposen los que soy feliz de otra manera,todos los días tienen ese instanteen que me jugaría la primaverapor tenerte delante.

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