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1. “This book is about the melancholic direction, which I call the “bittersweet”: a tendency to states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy at the beauty of the world. The bittersweet is also about the recognition that light and dark, birth and death – bitter and sweet – are forever paired. “Days of honey, days of onion,” as an Arabic proverb puts it.”
Susan Cain
Bittersweet, Melancholy, Awareness Of Time, Beauty In Sorrow, Light And Dark
2. “But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of information noise that daily rattled the lives of men he thought he might have heard a few notes that denoted the movements of gods.” Douglas Adams Melancholy, Information Overload, Spirituality, Perception, Modernity
22. “Dark draperies hung upon the walls. The general furniture was profuse, comfortless, antique, and tattered. Many books and musical instruments lay scattered about, but failed to give any vitality to the scene. I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow. An air of stern, deep, and irredeemable gloom hung over and pervaded all.” Edgar Allan Poe Atmosphere, Melancholy, Loss, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Resonance, Poetic Imagery
24. “There is, following an ample meal, a sort of pause in time, filled with a gentle slackening of thought and energy, when to sit doing nothing gives us a sense of life's richness and a feeling that the least effort would be intolerable. The melancholy we took with us to table has disappeared and, if we think of it at all it is only to smile, as at some black mood now past, its cause having gone. And with the melancholy, all scruple, all remorse departs from us.” Marcel Proust Contentment, Laziness, Satisfaction, Melancholy, Indulgence, Temporal Perception
26. “The anaesthetic effect of custom being destroyed, I would begin to think and to feel very melancholy things. The door-handle of my room, which was different to me from all the other doorhandles in the world, inasmuch as it seemed to open of its own accord and without my having to turn it, so unconscious had its manipulation become; lo and behold, it was now an astral body for Golo.” Marcel Proust Custom, Melancholy, Room, Door, Astral Body, Habitual Awareness
28. “She was in tears; and, strange as it was, in spite of the emotions he felt at the sight of these tears, he looked also at Madame de Villefort, and it appeared to him as if a slight gloomy smile had passed over her thin lips, like those meteors which are seen passing inauspiciously between two clouds in a stormy sky.” Alexandre Dumas Gloomy Smile, Stormy Sky, Emotional Contrast, Melancholy, Observation, Emotions
Melancholy Quotes by Famous Authors
1. “This book is about the melancholic direction, which I call the “bittersweet”: a tendency to states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy at the beauty of the world. The bittersweet is also about the recognition that light and dark, birth and death – bitter and sweet – are forever paired. “Days of honey, days of onion,” as an Arabic proverb puts it.”
Susan Cain Bittersweet, Melancholy, Awareness Of Time, Beauty In Sorrow, Light And Dark
2. “But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of information noise that daily rattled the lives of men he thought he might have heard a few notes that denoted the movements of gods.”
Douglas Adams Melancholy, Information Overload, Spirituality, Perception, Modernity
22. “Dark draperies hung upon the walls. The general furniture was profuse, comfortless, antique, and tattered. Many books and musical instruments lay scattered about, but failed to give any vitality to the scene. I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow. An air of stern, deep, and irredeemable gloom hung over and pervaded all.”
Edgar Allan Poe Atmosphere, Melancholy, Loss, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Resonance, Poetic Imagery
24. “There is, following an ample meal, a sort of pause in time, filled with a gentle slackening of thought and energy, when to sit doing nothing gives us a sense of life's richness and a feeling that the least effort would be intolerable. The melancholy we took with us to table has disappeared and, if we think of it at all it is only to smile, as at some black mood now past, its cause having gone. And with the melancholy, all scruple, all remorse departs from us.”
Marcel Proust Contentment, Laziness, Satisfaction, Melancholy, Indulgence, Temporal Perception
26. “The anaesthetic effect of custom being destroyed, I would begin to think and to feel very melancholy things. The door-handle of my room, which was different to me from all the other doorhandles in the world, inasmuch as it seemed to open of its own accord and without my having to turn it, so unconscious had its manipulation become; lo and behold, it was now an astral body for Golo.”
Marcel Proust Custom, Melancholy, Room, Door, Astral Body, Habitual Awareness
28. “She was in tears; and, strange as it was, in spite of the emotions he felt at the sight of these tears, he looked also at Madame de Villefort, and it appeared to him as if a slight gloomy smile had passed over her thin lips, like those meteors which are seen passing inauspiciously between two clouds in a stormy sky.”
Alexandre Dumas Gloomy Smile, Stormy Sky, Emotional Contrast, Melancholy, Observation, Emotions
