Quotes about Melancholy

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

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about

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.

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

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

It is a sad and very melancholy scene, which must strike everyone who knows and feels that we also have to pass one day through the valley of the shadow of death, and "que la fin de la vie humaine, ce sont des larmes ou des cheveux blancs." What lies beyond this is a great mystery that only God knows, but He has revealed absolutely through His word that there is a resurrection of the dead.

Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.

Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.

Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self! Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music:—do I wake or sleep?

I sit, and moan, Like one who once had wings.

Pale wox I, and in vapours hid my face. Art thou, too, near such doom? vague