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Melancholy
«Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness»
Author: Italo Calvino
(Essayist, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Melancholy,
Sadness
| Keywords:
lightness
«Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy»
Author: Robert Burton
(Clergyman, Writer)
| About:
Melancholy,
Music
| Keywords:
dejected, discontent, hearing, pleasing, remedy, woe
«I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Age,
Children,
Melancholy,
Reflection,
Thought,
World
| Keywords:
inhuman
«Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Melancholy
| Keywords:
pleasure, sad, The Pleasure