Quotes about Melancholy

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Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy. — Bohumil Hrabal, Pirouettes on a Postage Stamp: An Interview-Novel with Questions Asked and Answers Recorded by László Szigeti
Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end. — Rémy de Gourmont
Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods. — Charles Nodier, Smarra & Trilby
It might be high summer all about but inside me everything is fall. The lonesomeness of a sad, slow closing of days, kno — Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Last Crossing
To muse for long unwearied hours with my attention riveted to some frivolous device upon the margin, or in the typograph — Edgar Allan Poe, Berenice
Here rests his head upon the lap of earthA youth to fortune and to fame unknown.Fair Science frowned not on his humble b — Thomas Gray, An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. — Charles Baudelaire
We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations. — Joseph Howe