“The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.”
Jonathan Coe
“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
“Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.”
“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
“If there be a hell upon earth it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart”
