“Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.”
Pope Paul VI
“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
“Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.”
Aristotle
“Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.”
“Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.”
Francis Beaumont
“Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, / And moon-struck madness.”
John Milton
