Natalia Ginzburg Quotes

I'm so involved in melancholy.

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

A people whose souls are so little tuned to joy.

It looked like everything worth living for was gone. The entire country was depressed -- there was no hope.

I'm quite gloomy. I just am one of those people, vaguely lugubrious.

If a documentary crew were to follow me around, they'd probably think they were making a film about the saddest person in the world.

My general taste is towards the melancholy.

The name of the Slough was Despond.

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.

Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.

Improve every opportunity to be melancholy.

weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.

There are so many reasons to be sad in the club.

I don't wanna make something depressing, I wanna make something sorrowful.

I was perpetually this B-minus kid vacillating between eagerness and depression. I wasn't a bad kid, and I definitely wasn't aggressive, but I was a sad kid.

'Melancholy' is prettier than 'depression'; it connotes a kind of nocturnal grace. Makes one feel more innocently beleaguered.

I'm here to be lovesick, broke and drifting, writing heartache songs and singing about pain and misery and depression, with a few good times here and there.

For me, the opposite of happiness isn't sadness but boredom.

I'm always sad.

Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul. On the other hand, when the sun appeared, the children would come out to play in the streets, and everyone was happy that it was such a lovely day, and then I would feel terrible, as if that display of exuberance in which i could not participate was somehow unfair.

He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while. He thought of himself frying bacon and eggs in his own kitchen at home - for he could feel inside that it was high time for some meal or other; but that only made him miserabler.

He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.

Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

In the course of reading he [Alexander Pushkin] became more and more melancholy and finally became completely gloomy. When the reading was over he uttered in a voice full of sorrow: "Goodness, how sad is our Russia!"