Top 46 Quotes About Melancholia
#1. Scapegrace swivelled his eyes to her and she yelped and dropped his head. He bounced, and landed on his ear.
"I'll get you," he wheezed. "All of you. You're dead!"
Valkyrie didn't know what to do. She glanced back. Even Melancholia's eyes widened in surprise.
Derek Landy
#2. Do not acid vapors have the very properties of melancholia, whereas alcoholic vapors, always ready to burst into flame, suggest frenzy; and sulfurous vapors, agitated by a violent and continuous movement, indicate mania?
Michel Foucault
#3. We're in the business of melancholia
and we are married to our work.
Casey Renee Kiser
#4. As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.
Edward Abbey
#5. I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.
Charles Bukowski
#6. Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Graham Greene
#8. Many poets ... write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.
Randall Jarrell
#9. We [of Thelema] are whole-hearted extroverts; the penalty of restricting oneself is anything from neurosis to down right lunacy; in particular, melancholia.
Aleister Crowley
#10. Melancholia is the beginning and a part of mania. The development of a mania is really a worsening of the disease (melancholia) rather than a change into another disease.
Aretaeus Of Cappadocia
#11. Without noticing, I slip into a light yet lingering malaise. Not a depression, more like a fascination for melancholia, which I turn in my hand as if it were a small planet, streaked in shadow, impossibly blue.
Patti Smith
#12. On our way home we were waiting for the bus when a very fat, pompous-looking woman reeled out of a pub shouting, Melancholia? Ad nauseam.
Joe Orton
#13. The man in a free society must either blame himself (which leads to the melancholia of those plagued by inferiority complexes) or will be bound to accuse imaginary conspiraces of ill-wishers and downright enemies.
Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
#14. In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.
Sigmund Freud
#15. Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of '68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath.
Terry Eagleton
#16. Darkness, whether in mood or in night, is natural. So if we flow with the black bile of melancholia and endure the terrible darkness of depression, eventually we will break through into the light of joy. This is the Tao (the Way) of darkness or depression
this is the Mystery of its evolution.
Arnold Mindell
#17. So I've been in a coma for ... how long?"
"A year and a half."
Melancholia's eyes widened. "What? A year and a half? What the hell?
Derek Landy
#18. When I did these psychological characters like the drug addicts, the ones who were rejected and dejected, I started to feel a sort of melancholia which was very unnatural for me to have at a teenage. Then I avoided those characters.
Kangana Ranaut
#19. Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.
Aristotle.
#20. When it happens that a person has to give up a sexual object, there quite often ensues an alteration of his ego which can only be described as a setting up of the object inside the ego, as it occurs in melancholia; the exact nature of this substitution is as yet unknown to us.
Sigmund Freud
#22. We can postulate that there must be diseases founded on a conflict between ego and super-ego. Analysis gives us the right to infer that melancholia is the model of this group, and then we should put in a claim for the name of "narcissistic psychoneuroses" for these disorders.
Sigmund Freud
#23. I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
Patricia Kaas
#24. They faced each other. 'I'm going to enjoy this,'Melancholia said.
'I daresay I'm not.
Derek Landy
#25. When I think of the 1980s, the only color that comes to mind is a brown, yellowish color. I guess it's coming from my life experience, and it's melancholia and sadness and a bit of joy.
Denis Villeneuve
#27. He used to say to his melancholia patients:
You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone.
Alfred Adler
#28. The script for 'Infamous' was so poised between tragedy and comedy. It's a dream part. One reads those scripts with a sense of melancholia. When you read a script that good ... I remember thinking, 'Oh, this script is too good. They'll never give it to me.'
Toby Jones
#29. After 'Melancholia' and 'On the Road,' I wanted to do a comedy. And I did so many comedies when I was younger, but if you're not consistently in those movies, people don't always think of you for them.
Kirsten Dunst
#30. I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we?
Julian Fellowes
#32. I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.
David O. Selznick
#33. You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.
C.S. Lewis
#34. Melancholia is the disease of the middle-class. The Workers don't know what it means.
Chloe Thurlow
#35. Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die.
Brian Sibley
#36. For me, often, there's such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I'm going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don't know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief.
David Bowie
#37. Charlotte Rampling is someone I've wanted to work with for a very long time. I've always looked up to her as an actress and it's a reason why I feel brave to do a film like Melancholia. So, to me she's the ultimate.
Kirsten Dunst
#38. Recently she had been going through a period of adolescent melancholia, often talking with her mother, a nurse, about death. She would, she hoped, be some day reincarnated as a cat.
Joyce Carol Oates
#39. I had melancholy thoughts...
a strangeness in my mind,
A feeling that I was not for that hour,
Nor for that place.
William Wordsworth
#40. Then I tell you that sadness, in a way, is just another form of beauty. It can be a bit more melancholic, dramatic, heart-breaking and so, so quiet. The most emotional of things, finding its reflection in the world in decay, are those things we love the most from time to time.
Kate Luysterborg
#41. Can the beautiful be sad? Is beauty inseparable from the ephemeral and hence from mourning? Or else is the beautiful object the one that tirelessly returns following destructions and wars in order to bear witness that there is survival after death, that immortality is possible?
Julia Kristeva
#42. Let's call my mood melancholy; let's call it remembrance. Or maybe let's call it longing. Yes, let's call it longing instead.
Shannon Celebi
#43. Spanish rain,
A maiden's dress,
Apothecary pills
And ancient thrills;
Melancholy kills
A girl's caress.
Roman Payne
#44. I think about other things while she describes her recent past: air, water, sky, time, a moment, a point somewhere when I wanted to show her everything beautiful in the world.
Bret Easton Ellis
#45. Only pain can define the meaning of tears.
Munia Khan
#46. The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist.
Julia Kristeva
