#melancholy

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

— Charles Baudelaire

#beauty #conceive #i #i can #melancholy

A lot of the time there is a lot of melancholy in the lyrics. ↗

— Will Champion

#lyrics #melancholy #time

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#melancholy #stems

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat. ↗

— Norah Jones

#always #ballads #been #drawn #ever

She had thought, instinctively, that Victoria had a remarkably beautiful face. The face showed an alert awareness of life: her lips- full, overblown like clown-lips liable to laugh at the slightest provocation. She thought that her features were not chiseled but almost rugged, handsome, like a colloquial swear-word or a Vermeer peasant-girl, and a knock out at that. An overdone face, like one having two chins, two noses, that was big and abundantly cheerful but at the same time, there was a peculiarly puffy look about those eyes.’ ('Left from Dhakeshwari') ↗

— Kunal Sen

#melancholy #beauty

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another! ↗

— Gail Sheehy

#before #behind #changes #die #enter

When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical. ↗

— James Taylor

#almost #come #comes #may #melancholy

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#funny #humor #just #made #melancholy

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them. ↗

— Albert Pike

#bears #cheerful #creation #different #eyes

There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks. ↗

— Richard D. James

#melancholy #tracks