Quotes about Melancholy

The grey church looked greyer, and the lonely church looked lonelier.

While I read, I sighed, for it seemed as if all joy had vanished from the world, never to be restored

She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.

Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.