Top Melancholia Quotes

When sadness knows the reason of tears, heart prepares to carry the ache for years

Like a deep sad noteplayed beneath the oceanwaving through the orbthe memories of youthe bittersweet echoesinfixed forever in my heart

Melancholia Definition

(n.) A kind of mental unsoundness characterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill-grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideas.

My lips have touched more bottles than lovers and I'm half a shot away from psychotic.

Anyway, those things would not have lasted long.The experience of the years shows it to me.But Destiny arrived in some haste and stopped them.The beautiful life was brief.But how potent were the perfu...

Only pain can define the meaning of tears.

The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist.

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.

It was not really alarming at first, since the change was subtle, but I did notice that my surroundings took on a different tone at certain times: the shadows of nightfall seemed more somber, my morni...

Profound melancholia is a day-in, day-out, night-in, night-out, almost arterial level of agony.

The light is fading from the day.The rest is darkness and dismay.

Depression, when it finally came to me, was in fact no stranger, not even a visitor totally unannounced; it had been tapping at my door for decades.