Best sorrow & melancholy Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.”

People Want Wish Sadness Figures Serious Sorrow Drawing Landscape Melancholy Sentimental

Book:Van Gogh's

Source: Van Gogh's

“To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer than its cause is morbid, and should be shaken off as an attack of melancholy, as the forerunner of a greater evil than poverty or pain.”

Should Pain Lasts Evil Causes Poverty Greater Sorrow Grieving Melancholy Morbid Forerunners

Book:The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume III: 1777-1781

Source: The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume III: 1777-1781

“Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.”

Ifs Men Made Too Much Sorrow Beast Melancholy

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote

“Tis going, I own, like the Knight of the Woeful Countenance, in quest of melancholy adventures--but I know not how it is, but I am never so perfectly conscious of the existence of a soul within me, as when I am entangled in them.”

Knows Soul Existence Adventure Sorrow Conscious Melancholy Quests Knights Countenance Sentimentality

Book:A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts

Source: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts

“It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.”

Knows Men Pain Failure Sorrow Reflection Weak Senses Melancholy

Book:The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index

Source: The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index

“I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.”

Felt Sorrow Atmosphere Melancholy

Book:The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Source: The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

“There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.”

May Sorrow Active Employment Melancholy Indispensable Mansfield Park

Book:Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

“A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of it's complete egoism. I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remorse, but never sorrow. Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else.”

Giving Ideas Today Beautiful Names Known Strange Regret Sorrow Sad Graves Boredom Ashamed Melancholy Remorse Egoism

Book:BONOUR TRISTESSE

Source: BONOUR TRISTESSE

“One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal for not caring more; but one cannot and it is better, for if one grieved too deeply at other people's tears, life would be unendurable; and every man has sufficient sorrows of his own without taking to heart his neighbour's.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Feels Trying Heart Doe Would Be Faces Grief Tears Sorrow Oneself Caring Every Man Sufficient Melancholy Brutal Neighbour Not Caring Unendurable Caring More

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and the bird singing as we pass the osier bed. What are you whispering? Sorrow, sorrow. Joy, joy. Woven together, like reeds in moonlight.”

Together Faces Joy Voice Bears Sorrow Bed Moon Singing Bird Rivers Melancholy Your Face Moonlight Woven Whispering Reeds

Book:The String Quartet

Source: The String Quartet

“You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down”

Feels Kind Beautiful Felt Sun Sorrow Melancholy Beautiful Places Deep Sorrow

Author:Thrity Umrigar

“This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.”

Life Soul Sorrow Praise Melancholy Infamy

Author:Dante Alighieri

“Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.”

Ifs Men Life Character Pleasure Taken Sadness Sorrow Sad Live Life Melancholy Impervious Sadness And Sorrow

Book:Suicide: A Study in Sociology

Source: Suicide: A Study in Sociology

“I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must write, and elegiac verses bathe my face with real tears. Not even terror could drive from me these faithful companions of my long journey. Poetry, which was once the glory of my happy and flourishing youth, is still my comfort in this misery of my old age.”

Source: The Consolation of Philosophy

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