Citas sobre la melancolía

• Y así, siendo joven y sumido en la locura, me enamoré de la melancolía.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Amor, Inspiración, Vida

  "Las obras completas de Edgar Allan Poe".

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• I fell in love with melancholy

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Edgar Allan Poe (1984). “Poetry and Tales”, p.54, Library of America

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• There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.

  Albert Camus

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• Todos los cambios, incluso los más anhelados, tienen su melancolía; porque lo que dejamos atrás es una parte de nosotros mismos; debemos morir a una vida antes de poder entrar en otra.

  Anatole France

  Vida, Cambio, Personas que Cambian

  Anatole France (2016). "El crimen de Sylvestre Bonnard", p.186, Anatole France.

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• Los grandes hombres son siempre de naturaleza originalmente melancólica.

  Aristotle

  Men, Great Men, Temperament

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). "Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study"

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• Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

  Victor Hugo

  Sad, Being Sad, Pleasure

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5393, Delphi Classics

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• Melancholy is kind of sweet sometimes, I think. It's not a negative thing. It's not a mean thing. It's just something that happens in life, like autumn.

  Bill Murray

  Sweet, Mean, Autumn

  Fuente: movieweb.com

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• Pero es una melancolía propia, compuesta de muchas simplezas, extraídas de muchos objetos, y de hecho de la diversa contemplación de mis viajes, la que, rumiando a menudo, me envuelve en la más humorística tristeza.

  William Shakespeare

  Humorous, Sadness, Rumination

  William Shakespeare (2001). "Como gustéis", p.211, Classic Books Company

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• Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away to make themselves sadder, or to weep beside a stream, or choose a sentimental book! We are constantly building and unbuilding ourselves.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Book, People, Sensual

  Gustave Flaubert (1967). "Cuaderno íntimo, 1840-1841"

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• What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

  David Guterson

  People, Serenity, Literature

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• I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak and act like a human being, I kept my solitary agonies locked in my breast. I kept my melancholy and my agitation hidden, careful lest any trace should be left exposed. I feigned an innocent optimism; I gradually perfected myself in the role of the farcical eccentric.

  Osamu Dazai

  Agony, Optimism, Agitation

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.28, New Directions Publishing

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

  Charles Baudelaire

  Literature, Type, I Can

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• Melancolía abatida y locura golpeada por la luna.

  John Milton

  Moon, Madness

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 11, l. 485

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• Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

  Italo Calvino

  Sad, Taken, Lightness

  Italo Calvino (1988). “Six Memos for the Next Millennium”, p.19, Harvard University Press

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• A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind.

  John Dryden

  Numbness, Lazy, Mind

  John Dryden, C. B., Esquire Charles BATHURST (1852). “Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]”, p.128

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• Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

  Susan Sontag

  Depression, Fit, Charm

  Susan Sontag (1979). "La enfermedad como metáfora", Vintage

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• The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.

  William C. Bryant

  Fall, Sadness, Autumn

  William Cullen Bryant, "La muerte de las flores"

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• Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

  Francis Beaumont

  Sweet, Lovely, Literature

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1750). “The Works of Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher: The two noble kinsmen; Thierry and Theodoret; The woman-hater; The nice valour; The honest man's fortune; A masque; Four plays or moral representations in one”, p.336

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• It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.

  Tim Winton

  Flirting, Thinking, Too Much

  Tim Winton (2009). “Breath”, p.244, Pan Macmillan

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• Melancólicos eran los sonidos en una noche de invierno.

  Virginia Woolf

  Buenas Noches, Invierno, Sonido

  Virginia Woolf (2015). "La habitación de Jacob", p.46, Booklassic

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• La melancolía, en efecto, debe ser desviada por todos los medios menos bebiendo.

  Samuel Johnson

  Drinking, Mean, Alcohol

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.5

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• Hay que ser un artista y un loco, una criatura de infinita melancolía, con una burbuja de veneno caliente en las entrañas y una llama supervoluptuosa permanentemente encendida en la sutil columna vertebral (¡oh, cómo hay que encogerse y esconderse!), para discernir en seguida, por signos inefables -el contorno ligeramente felino de un pómulo, la esbeltez de unos miembros velludos y otros índices que la desesperación y la vergüenza y las lágrimas de ternura me prohíben tabular-, al pequeño demonio mortal entre los niños sanos; permanece irreconocible para ellos e inconsciente ella misma de su fantástico poder.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Niños, Artista, Llamas

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). "The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated", p.72, Vintage

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• Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Sad, Misery, Appetite

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.51, Arcade Publishing

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• it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.

  Franz Kafka

  Lying, Principles, Accepting

  Franz Kafka (1983). “The Penguin complete novels of Franz Kafka”

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• El conocimiento del alma nos volvería indefectiblemente melancólicos si los placeres de la expresión no nos mantuvieran alerta y de buen humor.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Cheer, Knowledge, Expression

  "Tonio Kröger". Book by Thomas Mann, 1903.

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