Melancholy Quotes

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

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.
Rita Dove

Time, Same, Cheerful

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Francis Beaumont

Nothing, Lovely, Sweet

When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical.
James Taylor

May, Write, Personal

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.
Francois Truffaut

Funny, Success, Humor

In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
Daniel Boone

Impossible, Diversity, Disposed

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.
George Will

Work, Freedom, Live

There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.
Josh Radnor

Same, Lovely, Leave

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
Ritchie Blackmore

Miserable, Instrument, Isolated

A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?
Hugh Mackay

Easter, Spring, Energy

Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication.
Natalie Imbruglia

Since, Maybe, Childhood

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Sydney Smith

Give, Habit, Resist

I don't know how many lions and leopards I've shot. I've shot two elephants, which was enough - never again. It's a melancholy and moving thing to hunt an elephant. It's like shooting an old man.
Wilbur Smith

Moving, Two, Enough

I'm so involved in melancholy.
Isaac Mizrahi

That's one thing about fashion that you really shouldn't be-you can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it.
Isaac Mizrahi

Fashion, Respond

Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both.
Colin Farrell

Pain, Character, Human

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.
David Guterson

Time, Serenity, Grasp

Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.
Antonio Tabucchi

Someone, Fact, Situation

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.
David Guterson

Tension, Cities, Produce

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.
David Guterson

Brooding, Haunts

A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.
Paul Tsongas

Life, Time, Joy

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.
Richard Le Gallienne

Long, Enjoy, Off

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.
Charlie Hunnam

Child, Films, Escaping

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.
Sam Rockwell

Everything, Acting, Approach

In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the blessed Apostle, of whom we have been speaking.
John Strachan

Blessed, Him, Subject

A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.
Stephan Jenkins

Music, Real, Down

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
Karel Capek

End, Might, Mankind

It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.
James Payn

Few, Risk, Reputation

A lot of the time there is a lot of melancholy in the lyrics.
Will Champion

I was a banker in Morocco when I first saw 'American Graffiti.' It was before I was an actor, a melancholy time in my life, and this mood was reflected in the film.
Jean Reno

Life, Time, Before

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