Melancholy Quotes

'American Graffiti' stayed in my mind, but I don't think to this day I've done a film that captured that same level of melancholy. It was so well done. Talking about it has given me the idea I might try harder to make that melancholy film!
Jean Reno

Mind, Done, Try

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.
Jonathan Coe

Side, Literary, Tune

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
Arthur Wellesley

Nothing, Lost, Battle

My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.
Anne Stevenson

Today, Person, Confusion

I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.
Chantal Kreviazuk

Writing, Made, Point

I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.
Arielle Dombasle

Love, Victim, Taste

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
Gunther Grass

Life, Mind, Become

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.
Gunther Grass

Work, Age, Busy

To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective; it reminds you to feel.
Mick Fleetwood

Positive, Place, Everyone

I'm always drawn to melancholy personalities.
Rene Russo

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
George Saintsbury

Whole, Century, Eighteenth

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.
Joseph Howe

Smile, May, Matters

There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.
Richard D. James

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.
Ismail Merchant

Love, Sadness, Give

There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.
Alain Resnais

Work, Darkness, Trouble

Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.
Marsilio Ficino

Beginning, Seems, Impressed

Diabetes is caused by melancholy.
Thomas Willis

Diabetes, Caused

Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well.
Stephen Dillane

Joy, Moments, Capacity

We have the melancholy dilemma of not being in a state to make peace or to prosecute war.
George Montagu

Peace, War, State

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