“But when the melancholy fit shall fall / Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, / That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, / And hides the green hill in an April shroud; / Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose.”
John Keats
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
Anatole France
“Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.”
Aristotle
“When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?”
Oliver Goldsmith
“Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.”
“Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf”
Baruch Spinoza
“He is of a very melancholy disposition.”
William Shakespeare
