Guillaume Apollinaire Quotes

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

I had sadness for breakfast.

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.

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'm so involved in melancholy.

Fans say I have a lot of sorrow in my eyes. It's true.

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

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

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

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

Most of life is sad.

Sadness can feel so unproductive.

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

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary. My life is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; My thoughts still cling to the mouldering past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

I lived and languished.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.

Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible.

I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.

Pathetic

I am as miserable as anyone - sometimes.

There is a lot of sadness in America.

There's a strong melancholic streak in me.