Odilon Redon Quotes

My songs have a layer of melancholy.

One of the saddest things I've ever done is download 'I'm A Teenage Dirtbag' by Wheatus and play along with it with my headphones on. Oh, God. If you were to walk in and see me do that, you would really worry for me.

I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry. Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.

Down the street the dogs are barking And the day is getting dark. As the night comes in a-falling, The dogs´ll lose their bark And the silent night will shatter From the sounds inside my mind, For I´m one to many mornings And a thousand miles behind. From the crossroads of my doorstep, My eyes they start to fade, As I turn my head back to the room Where my love and I have laid.

How deeply one felt when alone.

Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.

I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.

I was a shadow among shadows brooding over the fate of other shadows that I alone strove to summon up out of the all-pervading dusk.

I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish.

Me and my shadow Strolling down the avenue Oh, me and my shadow Not a soul to tell our troubles to And when it's twelve o'clock we climb the stairs We never knock 'cause nobody's there Just me and my shadow All alone and feeling blue

I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again.

I've had days when I go in my bedroom for 24 hours at a time. I call them my Cilla Black days, and they're literally black days. It's like the old Boomtown Rats song 'I Don't Like Mondays.' You just want to shut the whole day down.

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows.

You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling.

Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

When you hear a solo piano, there's a solitude about just one instrument playing. It can be beautiful; it can be sad.

During the first couple of years at school... I used to take my lunch and go down by the old fair grounds & sit alone by the side of the road & eat it... Those lovely, lonely lunches stick deep in my memory as unhappy times.

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

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

As a boy and even now, I am wont to melancholy. I do, probably once a day, experience a sincere heartbreak.