Quote by Arthur C. Clarke

“In 1945 music had a serious purpose; to defy post war depression & revitalize the romantic & hopeful aspirations of an exhausted ppl.”

— Pete Townshend

“For one unbelievable moment, the emptiness— the ache —that terrible hollow of desolation I’d lived with all this time was just – gone.”

— Julio-Alexi Genao

“The night seemed suddenly defiled by the absence of music, as if the silence itself was injecting a sickness that only another song could…

— Jake Vander Ark

“(Streets of Sorrow) Oh, farewell you streets of sorrow Oh, farewell you streets of pain I'll not return to feel more sorrow Through the…

— The Pogues

“And this notion of the meaninglessness of our lives here began to enflame us. I took up the theme again that music and acting…

— Anne Rice

“Here was the heart of dread. It was not fearsome. It was fetid, noxious, hopeless. A deep and exhausting misery, a crevasse so bottomless…

— Laura Tillman

“Byelorussian songs, if you've ever heard them are slightly monotonous, even mournful yet they do have a certain melancholy charm and compassion about them.”

— Anatoli Rybakov

“My melancholy wants to rest in the hiding places and abysses of perfection: that is why I need music.”

— Nietzsche Friedrich

“The never-ending ache of love and sorrow.”

— Madeline Miller

“Time makes a wound fester and rot, magnifying the pain into brooding despair”

— Tobias Wade

“The words sounded like a mournful incantation.”

— Dan Simmons

“It was enough to make you think fondly of those early days, of that “springtime” of the revolution when your teeth would be chattering…

— Teffi