“Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf”
Baruch Spinoza
“Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy”
Robert Burton
“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
“Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.”
“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
“I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
