Quotes about Melancholy

He thought incessantly, for he could not do otherwise; but he no longer took pleasure in his thoughts. To everything that they proposed to him in a whisper, he replied in his darkness: What is the use?

By continually going out for reverie, a day comes when you go out to drown yourself.

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.

Do I sing? Oh, I'm indifferent enough, sir, for that; but the reason why the grave-digger made music must have been because there was none in his spade, sir.

the ship was rushing through the water with a vindictive sort of leaping and melancholy rapidity

I feel like if you sit down and have an assistant engineer and a producer in a top-notch studio and everyone sets up all the mikes perfect, all of a sudden it's really hard to live that melancholy song. It's hard to really live it in the moment.

Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.

Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.

In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.

the conductor shouts All aboard! when the smoke is blown away and the vapor condensed, it will be perceived that a few are riding, but the rest are run over—and it will be called, and will be, A melancholy accident.

There can be no very black melancholy for him who has his senses still and lives in the midst of nature.

A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.