Connected Quote by Emile Durkheim

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

— Italo Calvino

Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away to make themselves sadder, or to weep beside a…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Melancholy is an intimate aspect of human nature, while depression, like any other illness, creates fear and perplexity. Melancholy can displayed, depression is usually…

— Karin Johannisson

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

— Victor Hugo

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

— Victor Hugo

“The melancholy can be black as suicide, gray as depression, white as emptiness and blue as mood. It may appear as fear, boredom, longing,…

— Karin Johannisson

When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.

— Carl Linnaeus

“Melancholy (1) An excess of black bile, anatomized by Robert Burton, embraced by the swooning Romantics as evidence of their fine sensibilities, now fallen…

— Michael Bywater

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing…

— Leonard Cohen

We're all connected to melancholy. It's an experience that moves us. And it defines us, the sadness we face it shapes our life journey.

— Jeremy Limn

“Melancholy isn’t always a disorder that needs to be cured. It can be a species of intelligent grief which arises when we come face-to-face…

— Alain de Botton

Melancholy is a state that I very much enjoy being in, actually. It's not the same as feeling sad. It's a more complex emotion;…

— Johann Johannsson