(80 quotes found)
“Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy”
Robert Burton
“I want to do drawings which touch people...In figure or landscape I should wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.”
Vincent van Gogh
“Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
“He is of a very melancholy disposition.”
William Shakespeare
“Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, / And moon-struck madness.”
John Milton
“This melancholy London- I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.”
William Butler Yeats
“The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.”
Oliver Goldsmith
“Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.”
Francois Fenelon
“Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief”
“But when the melancholy fit shall fall / Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, / That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, / And hides the green hill in an April shroud; / Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose.”
John Keats
