That's one thing about fashion that you really shouldn't be-you can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it.
Isaac Mizrahi

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
Ritchie Blackmore

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Oliver Goldsmith

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
Albert Pike

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Charles Lamb

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.
Jonathan Coe

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.
Rita Dove

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.
Nicolas Chamfort

There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.
Alain Resnais

This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
William Butler Yeats

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
Alcaeus

We have the melancholy dilemma of not being in a state to make peace or to prosecute war.
George Montagu

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.
Joseph Howe

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.
Ismail Merchant

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.
David Guterson

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.
Francois Truffaut

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
Oliver Goldsmith

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.
Richard Le Gallienne