melancholic Quotes

Don't get all sentimental on me, Makes me think I'm gonna die.

What a day. It's 53 and gloomy - like President Obama.

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on the one hand he was a melancholic with a loathing for mankind, on the other, some paralysis had twisted his mouth into a permanent and radiant smile. So everyone he met, being warmed by his smile, would shout him a happy greeting. And beaming upon them with his sunny face he would curse them all to hell.

Witty, brooding, contemplative, explosive: take your pick.

I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.

The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick sleepes.

Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content.

In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

I'm not really good at writing sad sappy ballads. In terms of the lyrics not matching the vibe of the music, that's kind of the way my career has gone; everyone is a little confused about it all the time.

Sorry-in-the-Vale, Sorriest River, Crying Pools," said Jared. "Is the quarry called Really Depressed Quarry?

Some people could say, "I'd like something that's super dramatic and miserable and made me cry and made me sad forever" but that's not my taste.

They are quite hopeless - drooling, driveling, doleful, depressing, dropsical drips.

Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.

Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.

For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so laden with virtues that they never know success in life.