Charles Baudelaire Quotes

There's a strong melancholic streak in me.

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

I like dark, hopeless, beautiful tragedies.

I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude. And I would not have the tears that sadness makes to flow from my every part turn into laughter. I would that my life remain a tear and a smile.

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.

There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

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

Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!

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

I'm very much drawn to melancholy and those kinds of emotions.

There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me - those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.

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.

I like the contrast in making something that sounds sunny but also has an element of melancholy to it.

My general taste is towards the melancholy.

All the best songs have an element of sadness.

For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.

One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy. Drowning in that water is as sweet as rising.

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

loveliness is infernally sad.

What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!

The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.