“The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year Of wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sear”
William Cullen Bryant
“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
“Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.”
“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
“This melancholy London- I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.”
William Butler Yeats
“I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs.”
William Shakespeare
