“I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober”
Samuel Johnson
“There are some that will say/ That a few hearts/ Will take on a sadness/ For all humankind/ And the sorrow is so deep/ That it touches a soul forever”
Stacy Maddox
“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
“Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.”
Aristotle
“Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.”
“The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.”
