Zitat des Tages über Melancholie / Melancholy:
Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you write melancholy songs like me.
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.
My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.
Diabetes is caused by melancholy.
This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.
Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.
For those of us with an inward turn of mind, which is another name for melancholy introspection, the beginning of a new year inevitably leads to thoughts about both the future and the past.
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard.
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
A lot of the time there is a lot of melancholy in the lyrics.
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
When I'm making the music, the songs that I get most excited about definitely make me feel good, but often, it's a really good feeling combined with some kind of melancholy element.
There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.
I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.
That's one thing about fashion that you really shouldn't be-you can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it.
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.
Lincoln prevailed: wearing his green shawl in the White House and gripped with melancholy, his feet constantly cold, he preserved a nation that had begun to unravel, often holding it together with nothing more than the flat of his hand and his unfaltering sense of human worth.
But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.
'Blue Monday' is a dance track with a hint of melancholy.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn't love casting the way that I always thought I would.
Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.