Quotes About Feeling Melancholy

#1. I drove in last night,' he said. 'I couldn't sleep, it was too hot. So I went outside. I was feeling melancholy. Then I danced with a beautiful girl, and I felt better. What's your story?

Judy Blundell

#2. I went to bed feeling melancholy, wishing I could have
poured out all my fears and insecurities to my mom. Wasn't
that what normal mothers and daughters did?

Richelle Mead

#3. He was fairly drunk, and feeling melancholy about all the sinking he had done in the world. Throughout the rough years the Greek alphabet had leaked out of his mind a letter at a time - in fact, the candle of knowledge he had set out with had burned down to a sorry stub.

Larry McMurtry

#4. I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

Julia Ward Howe

#5. And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

Arthur Golden

#6. Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

William O. Douglas

#7. Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my abdomen would be assailed by a melancholy, cold shivering. In the end I couldn't abide such happiness and ran away.

Ivan Turgenev

#8. A glass devil is a person in whom evil becomes transparent. People simply don't see it, despite the fact that it's there all the time.

Helen Tursten

#9. I think I always felt a connection to music and to movement. Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was gymnastics which I watched on TV.

Misty Copeland

#10. I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.

Margaret Cho

#11. They danced slow circles in the sand, Javier singing the words to the Spanish version of the song, the melancholy music putting a strange ache in his chest, an ache he saw reflected in her eyes. Was she feeling what he was feeling?

Pamela Clare

#12. The fakirs always throng the sea-shore
To find meaning in the chaos
And then they too become melancholy
Feeling nothing but their naked toes.

Avijeet Das

#13. If you don't place yourself where you could fail, you'd never have a place from where you'd succeed.

Dumebi Onwordi-Okonji

#14. I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.

Felix Bloch

#15. The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. Like when they say, As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.

Jean Rhys

#16. She quite liked this aspect of her personality, the way her mood could change from melancholy to euphoric because of a breeze or a flavor or a beautiful chord progression. It meant she never had to feel too down about feeling down.

Liane Moriarty

#17. The windows are empty holes lined with glass teeth.

Isaac Marion

#18. There is no re-inventing the wheel.

Sean Penn

#19. There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.

Mathieu Amalric

#20. Some, who doubt that the Bible is the true Word of God, doubt it because they are unwilling to ascribe to God anything they cannot themselves achieve.

Billy Graham

#21. When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in.

William James

#22. When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.

Joseph Roux

#23. I had melancholy thoughts...
a strangeness in my mind,
A feeling that I was not for that hour,
Nor for that place.

William Wordsworth

#24. We like what we like, we want what we want, and nobody needs to give us permission to feel that way!

Scott Lynch

#25. There are days when I am haunted by a feeling that is blacker than the blackest melancholy. I have a contempt for humanity. I despise the people I have been fated to call my contemporaries. I feel suffocated by their filthy breath.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#26. I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't.

Kim Gordon

#27. When people hit on feeling a certain melancholy or elation, it's a really exciting moment. I think making that connection is the goal, and what makes something great.

Craig Finn

#28. If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill of their own essence and drift through life without identity, like a human fog, feeling sorry for everyone.

John Cheever