Top Melancholy Quotes
We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.
Joseph Howe
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
Alcaeus
When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.
Francois Truffaut
I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.
Sandra Bullock
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
Gail Sheehy
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We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.
Joseph Howe 
61% of people like this quote
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
Alcaeus
60% of people like this quote
When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.
Francois Truffaut
59% of people like this quote
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
Gail Sheehy
57% of people like this quote
I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.
Sandra Bullock
57% of people like this quote
The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.
Rita Dove
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Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
Gunther Grass
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The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
Ritchie Blackmore
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Oliver Goldsmith
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