Melancholia Quotes

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)
I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia. View quote
David O. Selznick
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. View quote
Terry Eagleton
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." View quote
Joe Orton
You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity. View quote
C. S. Lewis
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. View quote
Edward Abbey
Many poets...write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia. View quote
Randall Jarrell
When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life. View quote
Patricia Kaas
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. View quote
Brian Sibley
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. View quote
Alfred Adler
The "music of decline" had sounded, as in that wonderful Chinese fable; like a thrumming bass on the organ its reverberations faded slowly out over decades; its throbbing could be heard in the corruption of the schools, periodicals, and universities, in melancholia and insanity among those artists and critics who could still be taken seriously; it raged as untrammeled and amateurish overproduction in all the arts. (Hermann Hesse)
And they say that after people make love there's a kind of melancholia that descends; la petite mort, you know, the little death. Well, I'm here to tell you, after a romantic night in with yourself, there's a very acute sensation of failed suicide. And I think a lot of that, if you're men is because of the quality of the gear you've got to work with. I mean it's horrible looking. Like a deep sea fish that ate its own arse after about an hour. What's going on down there?! Do something nice, like a kittens head... or something and you could just tickle its chin until it got sick... it would be alright... View quote
Dylan Moran
Earth, what have I to do with thee? With your meadows where dumb beasts Grazed before the deluge without lifting their heads? What have I to do with your implacable births? So why this gracious melancholia? Is it because anger is no use? View quote
Czesław Miłosz
I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend. View quote
Charles Bukowski
the history of melancholia includes all of us. View quote
Charles Bukowski
In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself. View quote
Sigmund Freud
They faced each other. 'I'm going to enjoy this,'Melancholia said. 'I daresay I'm not. View quote
Derek Landy
I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we? View quote
Julian Fellowes
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.' View quote
Toby Jones
When I first heard the songs of Mario Ruiz Armengol I responded in awe at the totality of their musical expression. Mario's harmonic sense was one that I had never encountered in most Latin music; melodies which in themselves were distinctive and lingered in your mind after only one hearing; profound emotional content without being hyper-romantic in conception. Some of them seemed almost brooding in character, filled with a feeling of melancholia and reflecting the depth of his personality. View quote
Clare Fischer
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)
The melancholia of everything completed. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Akhtar was gripped by constant melancholia. "Ya Allah, ab kya hoga?” was her constant refrain through her life that made her pour her heart and soul into couplets like "Mere Humnafas, Mere Humnawa, Mujhe Dost Ban ke Daga Na De, Mujhe Zindagi ki Dua Na De”. View quote
Begum Akhtar