Quotes about melancholy

Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

— Samuel Johnson

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

— John Milton

If my life was a hole, it would be deep, filled with melancholy and sadness.

— James Dye

The melancholic breeze of another morning caressing senses tired of a brief life, yet longing for more. But my Lord, who knows the moments next, who sees the path ahead, who decides a life as delicate as a dew drop upon the tip of a grass that sways looking at the beauty of the skies?

— Preeth Nambiar