Edgar Allan Poe
Poet, Writer
"I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy."
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Melancholy
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William Wordsworth
Poet
"Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place."
Edgar Allan Poe
Poet, Writer
"I fell in love with melancholy"
Alexander McQueen
Fashion Designer
"I find beauty in melancholy."
Aristotle
Philosopher
"Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy."
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"Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness."
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"There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between."
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"I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow."
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"Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad."
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"Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits."
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"Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste."
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"You will be melancholy, if you are solitary."
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"Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty."
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"Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin."
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"I am a melancholy type of person."
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"Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime."
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"But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomalyl) that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful."
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"Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world."
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"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."
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"Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life."
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"My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had."
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"Improve every opportunity to be melancholy."
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"Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones."
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"Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it."
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"Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself."
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