73 phrases of melancholy to understand this feeling
Give a review of the phrases of melancholy that have bequeathed us artists and thinkers It is a good way to understand the depth of this feeling. Between those that we will see next there are of people as important as Silvio Rodriguez, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Anatole France or Charles Baudelaire.
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The best phrases about melancholy
Melancholy appears in our lives characterized by a discouragement and feeling of sadness based on the feeling that nothing satisfies us.
We can find this feeling embodied in different representations of art, and for this reason there have been many plastic artists, musicians and writers have coined phrases about melancholy, which help us understand it.
In this article we will see a compilation of the thoughts, expressions and phrases of melancholy, most of them have been created by artists and thinkers, who express in a romantic way feelings of loss, longing and emptiness .
1. Melancholy is a sadness, a desire without any pain, similar to sadness in the same way that the mist resembles the rain (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
The American writer adds emotion to melancholy and describes it from a fluid language.
2. In the shade, far from the light of day, melancholy sighs on the sad bed, the pain at his side, and the migraine on his head (Alexander Pope)
Pope personifies melancholy and attributes humor.
3. Melancholy: romantic way of being sad (Mario Quintana)
Phrase with ironic background of this Brazilian poet.
4. Melancholy is a way, therefore, to have; it is the way of having not having, of owning things by the throbbing of time, by its temporary wrapping. Something like a possession of its essence, since we have from them what we lack, that is, what they are strictly (María Zambrano)
In this sentence, this Spanish philosopher links melancholy with a way of being , which is real as a result of the lack of something, a void.
5. I am very sad and I feel more miserable than I can say, and I do not know how far I have come ... I do not know what to do or what to think, but I want to leave this place vehemently ... I feel so melancholy (Vincent Van Gogh )
The melancholy was recurrent in this artistic French plastic; It influenced his creative process and was related to strong emotional problems until the last days of his life.
6. Melancholy: strange sickness of the soul that pierces the body; of bittersweet flavor. A poet gave him a voracious and painfully tender peak. Another poet called her rose of breath and damsel of loneliness. For the unsuspecting subject, melancholy can be - in short, it sounds like this and causes several confusions - a sweet tempter. Ingesting in large proportions can cause serious upheavals in the memories and unbalance the diet of each day. It is unlikely that a sentient animal can exist without ever having tasted a little melancholy (Rosa Elvira Peláez)
In this phrase, the melancholic reaffirms itself as an accompanying element in poetic work.
7. Melancholy is a state of mind located between the navel and the tear (Juan Echanove)
The phrase of this actor talks about a transit that originates in the organic, the visceral, to the expression of emotion through crying .
8. I believe that melancholy is the state of art madness. Of revelation and inspiration. It's Hamlet with the skull in his hand (Arturo Duclos)
Great way to identify it through the various creative spaces.
9. There is no melancholy without memory or memory without melancholy (Will Rogers)
This phrase tells us about nostalgia for memories.
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10. In the despair and in the melancholy of your memory, soria, my heart wakes (Antonio Machado)
Phrase of Machado that brings us to the memories of important passages of his life in Soria.
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11. Only melancholy I can fill universes and desire (Homero Cerecedo)
Attempt to describe the depth of the melancholic state.
12. I had understood that nostalgia for books was nothing compared to the nostalgia that people could arouse. The books told you about that feeling, about love, and it was wonderful to hear them, but they could not replace what they were talking about (Cornelia Funke)
A reflection on what happens when we enter the experience of a particular state or situation that we yearn for despite not having experienced it in the first person.
13. Nostalgia is a sad thing, but also a little happy (Milena Agus)
This phrase integrates a polarized aspect that is usually had about melancholy.
14. How much melancholy, how much loneliness hid behind that apparent joy of living? (Andrea Camilleri)
Some people live installed in this feeling.
15. Writing about melancholy would only make sense for those to whom melancholy saturates or if the writing came from melancholy. I try to tell them of a burden of sadness, of an intransmissible pain that sometimes absorbs us, and often, enduringly, to the point of making us lose our taste for every word, for every act, for the very taste for life. (Julia Kristeva)
About what happens when melancholy no longer represents an element that accompanies or stimulates the creative process but rather kidnaps the individual by paralyzing.
16. My only star has died and my lute bears the black sun of melancholy (Gérard de Nerval)
This phrase exposes melancholy as a representation, as something symbolic.
17. Melancholy is the happiness of being sad (Victor Hugo)
This phrase of Victor Hugo, regarding melancholy, places it as an experiential expression that accompanies sadness.
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18. A single being is missing and everything is depopulated (Alphonse de Lamartine)
One of the most inspiring melancholy phrases.
19. Melancholy is a memory that is ignored. (Gustave Flaubert)
A feeling very related to memory .
20. Dulce laughs at her, sweet the spy the beautiful one of melancholy (José María Eguren)
This feeling was always present in this Peruvian writer.
21. Although chronic melancholy is difficult to cure, it can often be relieved even when it occurs with intensity and violence. It is necessary, then, not to despair and have a lot of perseverance (...). I believe that remedies, methods and healing systems can be reduced to three classes: dietetics or food, therapeutic drugs and surgery (Robert Burton)
Burton was very interested in the study of melancholy.
22. It seems that I will have to get used to living with these intermittent attacks of melancholy and sadness. It's the same as living with an old bullet wound, which hurts when there's moisture. Maybe I have a few reasons for the grief. But it should not be. Life can be a party or a wake. One is the one who decides. That's why anguish is shit in my life. And the horror. That's the way I always am: shooing the grief, the grief and all that ... (Pedro Juan Gutiérrez)
To coexist with melancholy, we must recognize it, describe it, know its existence to know how to deal with it.
23. Let it be clear: the soul, as they say, is, it seems, not crystalline but swampy. The reasons that induce her, in this block, to let go, as they call them, to play and exaltation, in the next, with the same arbitrariness, and in no less unpredictable form, add it, to use once again the expression , in an intense melancholy. In any case it would seem, right? (Juan José Saer)
In this sentence the Argentine writer in a certain way, blames human sorrows on this emotional state.
24. Do I have to say this to you that so many times have you had to bear the burden of seeing me go from sadness to crazy extravagance, from sweet melancholy to depraved passion? (Ugo Foscolo)
In this sentence melancholy is positioned as a passive expression of sadness.
25. In the face of maternal inconsistencies, Charlotte is docile. His melancholy loves. Is that how one becomes an artist? Accustomed to the madness of others? (David Foenkinos)
Again the melancholy present in the creative process.
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26. My melancholy is the most faithful lover I have ever known (David Lodge)
For Lodge, this emotion represents permanence.
27. You must mourn over your lost pains so that, little by little, they can leave you, and you can be free to live fully in the new place without melancholy or nostalgia (Henri Nouwen)
In this sentence, it is warned that to get rid of melancholy we must recognize it from the expression of an emotion inviting us to close the door to past situations.
28. The personality of his anguish was gone; had widened and expanded these, they had lost their own essence, they had left him in a certain way to combine with that unspeakable melancholy exhaled by the drowsy landscapes under the heavy repose of the afternoons (Joris-Karl Huysmans)
Locating melancholy in the environment.
29. She was overcome with melancholy, a feeling that always provoked rain and darkness (Kate Atkinson)
Analogy based on crying and loneliness.
30. It was a passion for the look, and in his eyes were the eyes before time; his father says that time is melancholy, and when he stops we call him eternity (San Juan De La Cruz)
In this sentence is connected to melancholy as something environmental that when lived makes everything stop.
31. Melancholy is only an unconscious memory (Gustave Flaubert)
Again we mention the space of ignored memory that opens the way to melancholy.
32. Sadness and melancholy I do not want them in my house (Santa Teresa De Jesús)
Simple prayer used as a contraption against melancholy.
33. Reading a book, one day, suddenly, I found an example of melancholy: A man who kept silent and smiled, dying of thirst by a fountain (José Angel Buesa)
A description quite close to despair and a blindness caused by depression by melancholy.
34. And in this hesitation of breath and agony, full of pain I can hardly bear. Do not you hear the drops of my melancholy? (Ruben Dario)
A way very Rubén Darío style to address melancholy.
35. Melancholy, stop drying my life and undressing your woman's lip! (Cesar Vallejo)
This phrase of Vallejo about melancholy expresses his personality and irony.
36. Melancholy is the sadness that has acquired lightness (Italo Calvino)
For Calvino, this emotion is a lighter form of sadness.
37. Every man considers his human condition with an air of melancholy (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
According to this statement, melancholy is inherent in the human being.
38. Oh melancholy, happy lover, your pleasure always takes away from me (Silvio Rodríguez)
This singer, as a poem rescues the way he finds comfort in a certain way in melancholy.
39. Under the great skies overflowing with shadows or golden suns, wrapped in the pale and torrential mantle of my melancholy, with an astral indifference I watch the bad weather pass by ... (Delmira Agustini)
Beautiful allegory.
40. All recollection is melancholic, and all hope, cheerful (Novalis)
Remembrance and melancholy undoubtedly go hand in hand.
41. Many times people cry because they find things too beautiful. What makes them cry is not the desire to possess them, but that deep melancholy we feel for everything that is not, for everything that does not reach its fullness. It is the sadness of the dry stream, that little road that twists without water ... Of the tunnel under construction and never finished, of the pretty faces with stained teeth ... It is the sadness of everything that is not complete (Elena Poniatowska)
What you miss is also part of yourself.
42. All changes, even the most desired, have their melancholy; because we leave behind a part of ourselves; we must die in one life to enter another (Anatole France)
The accompanying melancholy of a process of personal growth .
43. A comfortable old age is the reward for a well spent youth. Instead of bringing us perspectives of sadness and melancholy, it will bring us hope of eternal youth in a better world (Maurice Chevalier)
In this phrase melancholy is seen as characteristic of an age.
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44. Melancholy is as seductive as ecstasy (Mason Cooley)
In certain cases melancholy can be equally addictive.
45. If there were a hell on earth, it would be found in the heart of a melancholy man (Robert Burton)
This phrase encloses the depth of the melancholic state.
46. All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy because what we leave behind is part of ourselves (Amelia Barr)
Again this feeling accompanying the processes that are concluding.
47. Great men are always of an originally melancholic nature (Aristotle)
For Aristotle the great thinkers have been involved in melancholy.
48. People without souls do not need melancholy (Vladimir Odoevsky)
Melancholy as an essential element.
49. I can hardly conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy (Charles Baudelaire)
Melancholy tends to be sweet to artists through the sensitivity it gives.
50. What some people interpret as melancholy, is actually serenity (David Guterson)
Another way to appreciate this mental state.
51. Melancholy is the sadness that has been taken from the light (Italo Calvino)
Italo Calvino exposes melancholy as part of sadness.
52. First, the company of fools can make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy (Oliver Goldsmith)
The melancholy present in companies that make us feel alone.
53. Melancholy and sadness are the beginning of doubt. Doubt is the beginning of despair. Despair is the beginning of different degrees of evil (Comte de Lautreamont)
In this phrase, they place melancholy as part of a process towards evil.
54. It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relationships (Charles Dickens)
This phrase about a melancholy describes it as a sad hope.
56. If I were immersed in a constant melancholy, I would not be who I am (Elie Wiesel)
Reflection that indicates that melancholy sometimes takes away our identity.
57. When you feel overwhelmed by melancholy, it is best to go out and do something kind for someone (Keble)
This phrase proposes to abolish melancholy with a considered gesture.
58Melancholy should be diverted by all means except drinking (Samuel Johnson)
A phrase that invites reflection on emotional management.
59. There is no such thing as happiness, only minor nuances of melancholy (Robert Burton)
The contrasts are part of life and our happiness.
60. Ask yourself if you are happy and you will stop being (John Stuart Mill)
This phrase proposes a reflection, an attitude that sometimes tends to be typical of melancholy.
61. Do not make better friends with a melancholy soul. They always carry a heavy load and you must carry half (Francois Fenelon)
A council to reflect about our relationship with the past.
62. I believe that every human being has a certain level of melancholy in life and in general (Sandra Bullock)
This phrase normalizes melancholy and leads to the everyday.
63. There is a melancholy that is born of greatness (Nicolas Chamfort)
A hopeful perspective.
64. You do not have harmony when everyone sings the same note (Doug Floyd)
This phrase describes the perspective of the melancholic.
65. The melancholic has the face of God when he looks at us (Pisabarro)
Interesting analogy with the melancholic.
66. Only after one has experienced the ups and downs, obligations and commitments of living with a partner, can one truly know the pleasure of living alone (Alexis Padfield)
About the nostalgia of what was never lived.
67. The loneliest place on earth? Live with a man you no longer love (Sally Brampton)
In those companies that give us solitude, it looks this kind of sadness .
68. If you do not use your smile you are like a man with a million dollars in the bank and can not spend them (Les Giblin)
When melancholy does not allow you to enjoy certain pleasures.
69. Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God (Karl Barth)
In melancholy we lose gratifying situations.
70. The melancholy has persecuted me like a black beast all my life (Jhon Cusack)
The actor's phrase describes his experience about melancholy.
71. Discard sadness and melancholy. Life is kind, has few days and only now we have to enjoy it (Federico García Lorca)
Reaffirmation of the joy that gives hope.
72. Tango that comes from afar to caress my ears as a beloved memory with melancholy details (Enrique Cadícamo)
Music also stimulates the management of sadness.
73. Autumn is a melancholy and graceful errant who admirably prepares the solemn adage of winter (Xavier Weel)
A poetic way of presenting melancholy.
