Melancholy Quotes

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France

Life, Die, Before

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Maurice Chevalier

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
Amelia Barr

Leaving, Less, Ourselves

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens

Great, Men, Truth

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
Charles Baudelaire

Beauty, Conceive, Barely

This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
William Butler Yeats

Lost, Through, Sometimes

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
Albert Pike

Different, Eyes, Same

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
Samuel Johnson

Means, Drinking, Indeed

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
Francois Fenelon

Best, Sad, Friends

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
Mason Cooley

Seductive, Ecstasy

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
Paul McCartney

Important, Nothing, Writing

Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.
Dan Savage

Life, Love, Family

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Charles Lamb

Street, Rare, Dull

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Sadness, Doubt, Start

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
Gail Sheehy

Life, Die, Before

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.
Julia Ward Howe

Happiness, Future, Fear

I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard.
Dave Grohl

Emotional, Spring, Young

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
Susan Sontag

Depression, Animation, Charms

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
David Hume

Men, Thrown, Knees

Melancholy is no bad thing.
Sting

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Children, Thought, Often

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
Baruch Spinoza

Music, Time, Good

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
Oliver Goldsmith

Men, Art, Woman

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.
Nicolas Chamfort

Greatness, Stems

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.
Sandra Bullock

Life, Human, General

I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.
James Otis

God, Truth, May

I am a melancholy type of person.
Alexander McQueen

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Oliver Goldsmith

Smile, End, May

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.
Alexander McQueen

Business, Sadness, Person

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
Alcaeus

Pain, Thinking, Sense

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