Melancholy Quotes

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

Wrapt in a pleasing fit of melancholy. - John Milton

With eyes up-rais'd, as one inspir'd, Pale Melancholy sate retir'd, And from her wild sequester'd seat, In notes by distance made more sweet, Pour'd thro' the mellow horn her pensive soul. - William Collins

Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever. - Henry Van Dyke

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? - Oliver Goldsmith

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

When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in. - William James

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

We're all a little melancholy about moving from here. We wanted to do something to say goodbye, and the bell is such a part of our heritage. - Jan Kaiser