Quotes about Melancholy

Here, brush this old hair aside; it blinds me, that I seem to weep. Locks so grey did never grow but from out some ashes! But do I look very old, so very, very old, Starbuck? I feel deadly faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam, staggering beneath the piled centuries since Paradise.

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.

O past! O happy life! O songs of joy! In the air, in the woods, over fields, Loved! loved! loved! loved! loved! But my mate no more, no more with me! We two together no more. -from Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it.

I don't think I am heartless. Do you?' 'You have done too many foolish things during the last fortnight to be entitled to give yourself that name, Dorian,' answered Lord Henry with his sweet melancholy smile.

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

He pulled the sash down and turned back. Catch my death! he echoed; and he felt like adding: But I've caught it already. I am dead--I've been dead for months and months.

She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and laid waste! Hearts melt, knees knock, bodies tremble, and every face grows pale!

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves -which is the same thing nowadays.

My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.