Michel de Montaigne Quotes

I'm so involved in melancholy.

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

I had sadness for breakfast.

I am a melancholy type of person.

There's definitely sadness happening in this band. I get melancholy every day about things.

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.

In the lives of the saddest of us, there are bright days like this, when we feel as if we could take the great world in our arms and kiss it. Then come the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn on our hearths nor in our hearts; and all without and within is dismal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

I wonder if I cry whether my tears would be gray.

You're not eating anything," said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. I can't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?" I've never been in the depths of despair, so I can't say," responded Marilla. Weren't you? Well, did you ever try to IMAGINE you were in the depths of despair?" No, I didn't." Then I don't think you can understand what it's like. It's very uncomfortable a feeling indeed.

Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.

In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn.

Many years ago in a period commonly know as Next Friday Afternoon, there lived a King who was very Gloomy on Tuesday mornings because he was so Sad thinking about how Unhappy he had been on Monday and how completely Mournful he would be on Wednesday.

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

I think I am pretty much melancholic.

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

Pathetic

I was a very sad little girl.

I feel like crying and sadness has brought an actual change to the shape of my mouth.

Most of life is sad.

I wear a lot of black. Like my heart.

Grief, for me, is a moment-to-moment experience.

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.