Melancholy Quotes

“Travel is one of the saddest pleasures in life.”

“Loneliness is a friend of mine.”

“My whole life has been a search for happiness. It’s been a void that has never been filled.”

“What is it about a beautiful sunny day, with the birds singing, that makes you want to lie down and die?”

“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death.”

“The beauty of the world hath made me sad, this beauty that will pass.”

“I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.”

“Fill all the glasses there, for why should we be melancholy, boys? Why should we be melancholy?”

“The biggest problem with melancholy is that it is a narcissistic emotion.”

“I'm the unluckiest person in the world.”

“I do not rejoice, I do not mourn, I do not sigh; but bring me the darkness of the forest.”

“At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.”

“How many of us have a soul which is seam-rent, and which we are conscious of dragging after us, like a dismasted ship, through the currents of life!”

“Depression is melancholy minus its charms.”

“All my joys to this are folly, Naught so sweet as melancholy.”

“Negra sombra que me asombras.”

“I think everything I do has a melancholy to it. Even the silliest things.”

“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”

“I’ve always been drawn to the melancholy in music.”

“I've always been a romantic, and I've always been a bit of a melancholic.”