I'm so involved in melancholy.
Isaac Mizrahi

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.
Gunther Grass

In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the blessed Apostle, of whom we have been speaking.
John Strachan

In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
Daniel Boone

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens

It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.
James Payn

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.
David Guterson

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
Gunther Grass

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
Mason Cooley

Melancholy is no bad thing.
Sting

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
Samuel Johnson

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
David Hume

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

My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.
Anne Stevenson

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Sydney Smith

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
Arthur Wellesley

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Francis Beaumont

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
Baruch Spinoza

Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.
Marsilio Ficino