Melancholy quotes

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◆ I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.

- Edgar Allan Poe100

◆ Wiping away these invisible tears that have been hiding behind this smile for all of these years everything that you've known about me has all been a lie cause the girl that you think is happy is wishing to die.

- Ana Chable100

◆ Diabetes is caused by melancholy.

- Thomas Willis99

◆ Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt...doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

- Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont99

◆ Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

- David Hume99

◆ Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

- Mason Cooley99

◆ I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.

- Sandra Bullock99

◆ There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.

- Nicolas Chamfort99

◆ Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

- Francis Beaumont99

◆ I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

- Charles Baudelaire99

◆ Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

- Leigh Hunt99

◆ Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

- Aristotle99

◆ There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy.

- Milan Kundera99

◆ It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

- Charles Dickens99

◆ Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness

- Italo Calvino99