Air Quote by William C. Bryant

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

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Oh! sad is the night-time, The night-time of sorrow, When through the deep gloom, we catch but the boom Of the waves that may…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass

— Charles Kuralt

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

“It came with the wind through the silence of the night, a long, deep mutter, then a rising howl, and then the sad moan…

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

— Italo Calvino

“The wind is made of haunting souls that moan and groan in whistles and whispers. This ghostly choir chills the breeze and orchestrates a…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

— Victor Hugo

Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.

— Leigh Hunt

“The state of mind above which my distraction floats like fog is suddenly perfectly clear, though the right word for it is less immediately…

— Mark Doty

“Whilst I stood, a solemn wind began to blow—the most mournful that ear ever heard. Mournful! That is saying nothing. It was a wind…

— Thomas de Quincey

“It seems impossible that I should be born to get so near to some things which touch the deepest strings of human conduct, the…

— Wallace E. Baker