It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens
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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
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
Arthur Wellesley
We're all a little melancholy about moving from here. We wanted to do something to say goodbye, and the bell is such a part of our heritage.
Jan Kaiser
It's going to be happy but melancholy at the same time. I've dealt with a lot of things, but having the guys' support has always meant so much to me. They're like my brothers.
Ricky Morgan
Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease.
Thomas C. Haliburton
We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.
Joseph Howe
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
Francois Fenelon
Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, / And moon-struck madness.
John Milton
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
Arnold Bennett
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
George Santayana
Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.
Italo Calvino
The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.
Jonathan Coe
If there be a hell upon earth it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart.
Robert Burton
The opening ceremony is all about passion, energy, the Italy of the future. It will be a bit aggressive. The closing ceremony will have a carnival theme - with a melancholy air because it's the end of the Games.
Marco Balich
I therefore became very melancholy and highly troubled. No Scripture could comfort me, though I was quite well versed in it.
Jacob Boehme
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