432 Quotes About Melancholy

Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.

Cyrano: The leaves---Roxane: What color---Perfect Venetian red! Look at them fall.Cyrano: Yes---they know how to die. A little wayFrom the branch to the earth, a little fearOf mingling with the common dust---and yetThey go down gracefully---a fall that seemsLike flying!

...she had gone too far into the unhappiness of the world to start all over again.

I want to burrow into the void he left inside you.

This melancholy company is curiously consoling. It is restful to be exempted from the obligation to find, in every spire and pinnacle of the mother of cities, reason to wonder and delight.

I'd like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it's quite impossible. Notes stab too softly. The wounds they leave behind may smart, but they don't fester. Melancholy and pain trickle out instead of blood. When the notes cease, all is peaceful within me again.

Tis not the times, 'Tis not the Sophists vex him:There is some root of suffering in himself,Some secret and unfollow'd vein of woe,Which makes the times look black and sad to him.Empedocles on Etna: Act I, Scene I

Maybe then he would have understood her better, understood how suffering steals the aptitude for happiness from you. Maybe he would have been okay with her melancholy then.

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