Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits. But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in the most humorous sadness. "This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are … A strange melancholy was stealing over me, a melancholy that I would not have interrupted. I was walking along the road with two friends.
Oftentimes, especially in the context of an acoustic song, I'm motivated to write by some amount of melancholy. Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. 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?
I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general. And that itself has a melancholy to it. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. ”, “My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.”, “The eye turned to the fire gave back no light and he closed it with his thumb and sat by her and put his hand upon her bloodied forehead and closed his own eyes that he could see her running in the mountains, running in the starlight where the grass was wet and the sun's coming as yet had not undone the rich matrix of creatures passed in the night before her. It's just something that happens in life, like autumn. Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are. "Tonio Kröger". Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits. Charles Bathurst. Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place. “The Town and the City”. Melancholy is sort of a comfort. Why is love intensified by abscence?”, “What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?”. “Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.”, “The soulless have no need of melancholia”, “Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.”, “That's most interesting. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”, “Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”, “I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”, “I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.”, “Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.”, “I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone.
But which cannot be held never be held and is no flower but is swift and a huntress and the wind itself is in terror of it and the world cannot lose it.”, “The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.”, Green Shadows, White Whale: A Novel of Ray Bradbury's Adventures Making Moby Dick with John Huston in Ireland. I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer. They’ve gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard. All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another! It's an important color in writing.
One feels them passing like a whiff of air. Melancholy has a sort of beauty to it. Pleasures no longer attract;”, “For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all day. I, “And, at such a time, for a few of us there will always be a tugging at the heart—knowing a precious moment had gone and we not there. 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.
I don't mean sad.
“As You Like It”, p.211, Classic Books Company. I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost.
The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic. “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage, There is a mistake in the text of this quote. Explore 159 Melancholy Quotes by authors including William Butler Yeats, Samuel Johnson, and Charles Dickens at BrainyQuote.
In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
It's my personal business. I suppose I am a very melancholy person. Comte de Lautreamont Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. 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.
And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature. I take walks. The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. It is also a time of melancholy. “Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”, “I am my heart’s undertaker.
But for an instant – because of a wild music, or a drug, or the sexual act carried to its climax – the very slow rhythm of the melancholic soul does not only rise to that of the outside world: it overtakes it with an ineffably blissful exorbitance, and the soul then thrills animated by delirious new energies”, “Melancholy suicide.
They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.”, “It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening.