Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Guterson

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

Baruch Spinoza

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.

Edgar Allan Poe

I fell in love with melancholy

Alexander McQueen

I am a melancholy type of person.

Albert Camus

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.

Sting

Melancholy is no bad thing.

Thomas Willis

Diabetes is caused by melancholy.

Soren Kierkegaard

In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.

John Milton

Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy.

Michael Haneke

I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.

George Saintsbury

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

Aristotle

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

James Boswell

Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.

Isaac Mizrahi

I'm so involved in melancholy.

William Shakespeare

I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs.

Ovid

You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.

Ben Jonson

Have you a stool there to be melancholy upon?

James L. Petigru

If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin.

Emile M. Cioran

Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.

Emile M. Cioran

Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.

Will Champion

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

Vincent Van Gogh

For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that's to say, pleasure in other things stops immediately and I become melancholy if I can't get on with the work.