Johann Johannsson Quotes

I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy.

I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

I love sad. Sadness makes you feel more than anything.

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

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

I think people just think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.

There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.

The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.

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

I want tragic and poetic forever! That's how I want to live every day.

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

The observations and encounters of a devotee of solitude and silence are at once less distinct and more penetrating than those of the sociable man; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. Images and perceptions which might otherwise be easily dispelled by a glance, a laugh, an exchange of comments, concern him unduly, they sink into mute depths, take on significance, become experiences, adventures, emotions.

I find beauty in melancholy.

She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.

The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.

My favorite pieces that I've written, either for St. Lucia or for myself, have always had a transporting quality to them, where they take you out of the moment and somewhere positive that feels nostalgic and happy but sad at the same time.

I think melancholy is kind of a misunderstood emotion. I don't think it's necessarily an unpleasant or bad emotion.

I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.

To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been.

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

The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.

The rainiest nights, like the rainiest lives, are by no means the saddest.