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Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.
Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]
A lot of the time there is a lot of melancholy in the lyrics.
But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
I'm very much drawn to melancholy and those kinds of emotions.
Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.
Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.
The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness
Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.
If I were immersed in constant melancholy, I would not be who I am.
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.
And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.
You can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it.
I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.
There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.
In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
I was not always free from melancholy; but even melancholy had its charms.
I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.
The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
For me, comic scores always have to have some melancholy in the background.
A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.
Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.
You'll find Swedes - maybe not as much as the Finns - thriving in melancholy.
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.
Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place.
... she indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries.
Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.
Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.
The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.
I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.
The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.
Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.
A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.
The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.
My sweet spot, the stuff I like the most, is hopeful melancholy. Optimistic melancholy.
Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
There's definitely sadness happening in this band. I get melancholy every day about things.
But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.