Quotes of Melancholy - somelinesforyou

“ The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear. ”

- William C. Bryant

“ The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else. ”

- Arnold Bennett

“ It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair. ”

- Edward Young

“ What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. ”

- George Eliot

“ 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

“ The first cuckoo's melancholy cry. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ Depression is melancholy minus its charms — the animation, the fits. ”

- Susan Sontag

“ Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long John Hunter blues, before and after, that's what I am. ”

- John Hunter

“ Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. ”

- Dylan Thomas

“ Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! ”

- John Milton

“ I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ Courts are not immune to the sadness and tragedy that a case represents. ”

- Jeffrey Miller

“ 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

“ Let me not know that all is lost, though lost it be - leave me not tied to this despair, this corpse like bride. ”

- Robert Browning

“ If depression had settled like a blanket on the minds of most players. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ Nothing is miserable unless you think it so. ”

- Boethius

“ Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself. ”

- Pythagoras

“ Have you a stool there to be melancholy upon? ”

- Ben Jonson

“ The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. ”

- Jim Rohn

“ Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing. ”

- Seneca

“ Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. ”

- John Gay

“ Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile. ”

- Unknown

“ They have tied me to a stake. I cannot fly, But bear-like I must fight the course. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't sad. I believed God had something for me to do. ”

- Stevie Wonder

“ Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. ”

- Chuck Palahniuk

“ Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness. ”

- Benjamin L. Hooks

“ We used to think the rate of postpartum depression was 9 percent. We now know it is much higher than that. ”

- John Gottman
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