“I cannot bear it!" said the pewter soldier. "I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers.”
Hans Christian Andersen
“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
“Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.”
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
“Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.”
“I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.”
Francois Fenelon
