Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.

— Nell Freudenberger

I like it when cities are melancholic. When it started snowing for example, I felt very lonely. I felt very comfortable and very relaxed.…

— Benjamin Clementine

And as I walk round the park I always think, 'Maybe round the corner I am going to find something beautiful.' I always think…

— Sophia Loren

I've always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I'd be looking at the waitress's cracked shoes.

— Marian Keyes

It's almost as if the Swedes have two different personalities: one for winter and one for summer. I am both a happy and a…

— Sofia Helin

“My memories, with images by Botticelli and harmonies by Mozart, of returning from a far away place, of the time when my tears were…

— Emil Cioran

“All of this was mine, simply for agreeing to marry a man I did not love but who was, in the end, the only…

— Melanie Benjamin

I always fear with music that it can be too immediate - too geared toward a "get addicted to it and throw it away"…

— Daniel Lopatin

'Tu ki jaane' is a melancholic song about a love unfulfilled, about a road block in a once happy relationship also embodies the evolution…

— Neha Bhasin

“Melancholia is, I believe, a musical problem: a dissonance, a change in rhythm. While on the outside everything happens with the vertiginous rhythm of…

— Alejandra Pizarnik

I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part…

— Patricia Kaas

In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.

— John Milton

“Traits of melancholic type: talented, creative, analytical, idealistic, pessimistic, masochistic, critical and uncertain.”

— Zoe McKey

I know that New York is big - there are huge buildings - but, in fact, it's quite small and contained... I like it…

— Benjamin Clementine

There is always something melancholic about the empty chairs.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan