“Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch”
Thomas Paine
“Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.”
Sydney Smith
“It's a sad and melancholy day, but at the same time, it's a wonderful reunion. It was great to see everyone. It's hard to articulate, but when a man like coach Vaught takes all these guys under his wing, and helps make them better people, he's really accomplished something.”
Ray Brown
“It's going to be happy but melancholy at the same time. I've dealt with a lot of things, but having the guys' support has always meant so much to me. They're like my brothers.”
Ricky Morgan
“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