Melancholy Quotes

“All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.”

“My tea's gone cold, I'm wondering why I got out of bed at all. The morning rain clouds up my window and I can't see at all.”

“I'm in the wrong generation. That's all. I feel like I'm in a trance most of the time.”

“My soul is a concert of sorrows.”

“Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.”

“Everything that is beautiful, everything that is true, has a tone of melancholy mixed in its blood.”

“The gas-lamps gleam; the ragged skies are grey; / A rainy wind is blowing up the street.”

“The piano moans like a chilly soul.”

“Et mon particulier est d'être malheureux.”

“Empty, I think, is the word that I would use for my life.”

“There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness.”

“To be an Irishman is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.”

“And yet, alas! to me the jocund Spring, Vainly her renovated beauties brings; To me, her blossoms and her birds but sing, Of vanish'd Hope, and Time's destructive wings.”

“Cocktails and laughter, but what comes after?”

“I am so tired of all the happy men.”

“My sadness has the taste of the sea.”

“My soul is a pale landscape quenched in the tears of the night.”

“There's a sadness in country music that I've always been drawn to.”

“I find it very easy to be melancholic.”

“The pensive poet dreams, Or pours his plaintive strain.”