Kad bi se svi ljudi ugušili u pismima umrlih roditelja i…

I am no longer a divine biped. I am no longer the freest German after Goethe, as Ruge named me in healthier days. I…

— Heinrich Heine

Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or…

— Sarah Ruhl

“Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Po haljini sam mogao da vidim kako njeno telo diše, jer se haljina dizala i spuštala, dizala i spuštala, skoro kao da morski talasi…

— Jostein Gaarder

The sadness from reading letters that you know you can't help because it's a person who's in extremis and their problems are not soluble…

— Emily Yoffe

“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

“This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are abated; the great single cloud…

— Charlotte Brontë

For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things…

— William Gibson

There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into…

— Erich Maria Remarque

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

— Daniel Boone

“Nothing you did made sense and nothing you’ll ever do.”

— Michael Hogan

“They laughed, but I was melancholy. The remnants of Rome always make me sad, simply because they are proof that we slide inexorably towards…

— Bernard Cornwell

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

“Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster.”

— Noelle Oxenhandler

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich