Quotes about Melancholy

Cold in the earth—and fifteen wild Decembers, From those brown hills, have melted into spring.

The grey church looked greyer, and the lonely church looked lonelier.

While I read, I sighed, for it seemed as if all joy had vanished from the world, never to be restored

In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I make or that other people make that really resonates with me.

She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.

Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.