“Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, / And moon-struck madness.”
John Milton
“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
“If there be a hell upon earth it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart”
Robert Burton
“I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
