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Quotes About Melancholy

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
~ Andre Gide
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
~ Victor Hugo
I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it.
~ Barbara Pym
What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!
~ Charles Baudelaire
Never shall my sad eyes again behold Those pleasures which my thoughts did then unfold.
~ Emilia Lanier
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.
~ William Wordsworth
I realize that, while often happy and often cheerful, I am always sad.
~ Fernando Pessoa
It's a sad and beautiful world.
~ Jim Jarmusch
The sad truth is the truth is sad.
~ Daniel Handler
I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.
~ J. D. Salinger
I'm always alone. Sad face emoticon.
~ Al Madrigal
Black is not sad... Black is poetic.
~ Ann Demeulemeester
But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.
~ William Wordsworth
Everything is so sad and so wonderful.
~ Cloris Leachman
To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.
~ Tori Amos
The still, sad music of humanity.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.
~ Patty Griffin
I'd rather sing a sad song than eat.
~ George Jones
Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
~ Victor Hugo
Ay me! sad hours seem long.
~ William Shakespeare
But they never last, the golden days. And it can be sad, the sun in the afternoon, can't it? Yes, it can be sad, the afternoon sun, sad and frightening.
~ Jean Rhys
Living, it can be sad too.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
Keep it simple, keep it sexy, keep it sad.
~ Mitch Miller
Certain songs just feel a way that's hard to put into words and it's not happy and it's also not really sad but I couldn't say what it is
~ Elliott Smith