Alexander McQueen Quotes

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.

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

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.

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

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.

And sometimes when the night is slow The wretched and the meek We gather up our hearts and go A Thousand Kisses Deep.

The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.

Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

I am often lost in my own world, with a frown on my face.

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.

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.

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

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.

Mr. Brad Delp. J'ai une ame solitaire. I am a lonely soul.

I'm always drawn to melancholy personalities.

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

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

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

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

There's a strong melancholic streak in me.

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

Melancholy is a state that I very much enjoy being in, actually. It's not the same as feeling sad. It's a more complex emotion; it derives from a tragic view of the world, a tragic view of art.