melancholy Quotes

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

Some very silly songs can have an almost melancholy feeling when you put it in a different perspective.

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

If you observe, all classic love songs have a tinge of melancholy that comes naturally with the composition.

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

Oftentimes, especially in the context of an acoustic song, I'm motivated to write by some amount of melancholy.

My general taste is towards the melancholy.

You'll find Swedes - maybe not as much as the Finns - thriving in melancholy.

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

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.

I'm very much drawn to melancholy and those kinds of emotions.

Melancholy is no bad thing.

I have a tremendous battle with melancholy and depression.

The tolling of yon dismal bell and the loud but solemn discharge of artillery hath announced to the nation the melancholy tidings - Thomas Jefferson no longer lives!

Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy.

I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.

My sweet spot, the stuff I like the most, is hopeful melancholy. Optimistic melancholy.

I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancholy romance.

I liked 'The Darjeeling Limited' very much. There was a melancholy about that film that I liked.

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

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