“It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood”
Thomas Jefferson
“The melancholy truth was that his glorious golden head had nothing in it”
Cecil Woodham Smith
“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
“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.”
Aristotle
“Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.”
“I want to do drawings which touch people...In figure or landscape I should wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.”
Vincent van Gogh
