Beautiful Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomalyl) that fitful strain of melancholy…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I find beauty in melancholy.

— Alexander McQueen

Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

— Immanuel Kant

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.

— Karel Capek

Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before…

— Alain de Botton

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

— Italo Calvino

Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.

— Anonymous

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

— Victor Hugo

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

— Arthur Golden

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness

— Nicolas Chamfort

“The beauty of melancholy cannot be attained by looking. You must embrace the terror it breeds. Then you will be pleased.”

— S.E. Lindberg