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.

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

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

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

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

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

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

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.

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!

The longer he stood, the plainer his reflections revealed their blackness through his features.

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.