Quotes of: Melancholy Keyword

When I was young and filled with folly, I fell in love with melancholy

Edgar Allan Poe

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

George Saintsbury

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

David Guterson

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.

Comte de Lautreamont

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

Arthur Wellesley

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

Alain Resnais

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

Jamaica Kincaid

Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.

All Gall Is Divided: Aphorisms

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

Sam Rockwell

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

Charlie Hunnam

I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.

Charles Baudelaire

This was a characteroloical prelude, but it wasn’t chemical or somatic. It was the anatomy of melancholy, not the anatomy of his brain.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Amelia Barr

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

Arthur Golden

[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

The Anatomy of Melancholy

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

Francois Fenelon

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

Paul McCartney

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

Sydney Smith

One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically.

Lee Radziwill

I am a melancholy type of person.

Alexander McQueen