Everything is so sad and so wonderful.

It’s just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they’re never coming again, and I’m not really getting all…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Gwynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go to a…

— Michelle Tea

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the…

— Amy Tan

“A desire of desires: the melancholy.”

— Anonymous

“There's this charge in the air, and it takes me awhile to get it at first, to really put it all together. It's melancholy.”

— C.M. Stunich

Improve every opportunity to be melancholy.

— Henry David Thoreau

“You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't be The familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skin Your head's under water when…

— Sanhita Baruah

Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.

— Anonymous

“A great melancholy was hanging in the air, giving their love a more languid, more tender feeling. It was like the love one feels…

— Georges Rodenbach

“I’ve always been a fan of the melancholy, like Morrissey. I grew up playing classical nocturnes like Chopin and Debussy on piano, so I…

— Blake Lewis

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of…

— Gunter Grass

“He presses two fingers against each eye and attempts to account for this crippling melancholy, but is having trouble with rational thought. It feels…

— David Nicholls

In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.

— Daniel Boone

You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down

— Thrity Umrigar

“As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich