Definition of Melancholy

Melancholy

Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.

Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia.

Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.

Ill nature.

Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal.

Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event.

Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.

Favorable to meditation; somber.

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Melancholy Quotations

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens

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.
Maurice Chevalier

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.
Anatole France

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.
William Butler Yeats

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
Samuel Johnson

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
Charles Baudelaire

In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
Daniel Boone

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
Francois Fenelon

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
David Hume

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.
Albert Pike

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
Baruch Spinoza

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
Susan Sontag

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.
Nicolas Chamfort

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Francis Beaumont

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
Ritchie Blackmore

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.
Sandra Bullock

A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.
Stephan Jenkins

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.
Dave Grohl

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.
Francois Truffaut

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Sydney Smith

A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.
Paul Tsongas

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
Arthur Wellesley

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
Oliver Goldsmith

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Oliver Goldsmith

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Charles Lamb

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
Mason Cooley

I'm so involved in melancholy.
Isaac Mizrahi

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.
Isaac Mizrahi

Melancholy is no bad thing.
Sting

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Melancholy Translations

melancholy in Dutch is weemoedig, droefgeestig, melancholiek
melancholy in Portuguese is melancolia

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