Quotes with melancholy

  • Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. 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.
  • If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.
  • A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
  • Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.
  • I never had but one intrigue yet: but I confess I long to have another. Pray heaven it end as the first did tho , that we may both grow weary at a time; for 'Tis a melancholy thing for lovers to outlive one another.
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  • Aristotle Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Lydia M. Child A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Bruce Catton Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Leigh Hunt Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Amelia Barr All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
    Amelia Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Gail Sheehy 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!
    Gail Sheehy
    American author, journalist, and lecturer (1936 - 2020)
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  • Anatole France All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Susan Sontag Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • François Fénelon Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Bill Medley Every so often, if I'm in a melancholy mood, I'll sing 'Desperado' in my shows. I'll sit alone at the piano and play it as a solo. The song feels like an old friend - except now it's saying, 'You were a desperado once, but you worked your way out of it.'
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • William Trevor I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.
    William Trevor
    Irish writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Sir John Vanbrugh I never had but one intrigue yet: but I confess I long to have another. Pray heaven it end as the first did tho , that we may both grow weary at a time; for 'Tis a melancholy thing for lovers to outlive one another.
    Sir John Vanbrugh
    English architect and dramatist (1664 - 1726)
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  • Günter Grass If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Charles Dickens It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont 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 Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • Günter Grass Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. 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.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Aristotle Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Samuel Johnson Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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