Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old melancholy quotes, melancholy sayings, and melancholy proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer.Thomas E. Mann
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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.Søren Kierkegaard
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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.Comte de Lautreamont
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Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away to make themselves sadder, or to weep beside a stream, or choose a sentimental book! We are constantly building and unbuilding ourselves.Gustave Flaubert
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.William C. Bryant
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Only tears can hear the sound of pain when warm blood reddens discolored stain.Munia Khan
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It is Melancholy that causes those delightful tears to flow, and produces that melting disposition of the heart which is felt in the enjoyment of a pure pleasure, in the possession of a sweet and certain joy.Jeanne-Marie Roland
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.Charles Dickens
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There is no coming to consciousness without pain.Carl Jung
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Depression is melancholy minus its charms the animation, the fits.Susan Sontag
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Melancholy is not one of my emotions. Quite seriously, I don't do melancholy. It's a miserable way to be.Walter Mischel
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Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.Emil M. Cioran
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.Edgar Allan Poe
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A tendancy to melancholy let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.Abraham Lincoln
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It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.Richard Steele
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Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.Victor Hugo
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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.Victor Hugo
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Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.Italo Calvino
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No one explains this to you, he thought. That there are so many things without solution.Jesse Ball
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The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.John Vance Cheney
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Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.Immanuel Kant
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Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.Raheel Farooq
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There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.Nicolas Chamfort
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.Virginia Woolf
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Melancholy is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.John Ford
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When sadness knows the reason of tears, heart prepares to carry the ache for years.Munia Khan
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Melancholy is kind of sweet sometimes, I think. It's not a negative thing. It's not a mean thing. It's just something that happens in life, like autumn.Bill Murray