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The night speaks volumes to those who understand melancholy fluently. – S.A. Quinox	added by QuinoxPoetry 1 year ago
Suspicion and uneasiness gives an overall mysterious tone or even atonality to a piece, as in object in contention, something I always evaluate. Along with melancholy or disappointment, all of which are valid human emotions and sensitivities.” – Adamo Macri	added by anonymous 2 years ago
His life had changed so drastically, he was not accustomed to not being in the best of health. That bothered him. And then not being able to spend time out in public - that took a big chunk out of his world. He was at peace on stage performing. And in reflecting on his life, he realized, ‘This is what the rest of my life is going to be.’ He was in a melancholy place really. – Tony Oppedisano	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal. – Townes Van Zandt	added by RobertHaigh 2 years ago
They are 8 and 10. We just felt like we would wait until they were a little bit older, most of that stuff goes over their head anyway. But also it was just weird for them to watch dad on the television... it was really fun. It actually lightened the mood for my wife and I to have them laughing at everybody's ridiculousness. It kind of helped with the melancholy aspect of saying goodbye to the show and my fictional family. – Ty Burrell	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's scaring him, i think he's melancholy. He's very, very low right now. – Juda Engelmayer	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only. Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more compleatly deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood. – Thomas Jefferson	added by Normando 4 years ago
This drawing shows a certain wistfulness I think, a certain melancholy even, it's not Leonardo, the great philosopher gazing into the distance. It's a flesh and blood man at the end of a career that had achieved a great deal, but also maybe failed to achieve a great deal as well. – Martin Clayton	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
When the time came to bring the' Transparent' journey to a close, it was clear that saying goodbye to Maura Pfefferman was our path forward, in this musical finale, we dramatize the death of Maura Pfefferman in an odyssey of comedy and melancholy told through the joyful prism of melody and dance. – Jill Soloway	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. – Arthur Wellesley	added by TrekReichen 5 years ago
It’s been a frustrating journey, a lot of trial and error. For years it felt like I was swimming in the ocean, all by Aimee Osbourne, i’ve lived through a lot of dark environments one way or another while growing up and that has influenced my songwriting. And, yes, I suppose melancholy is a running theme. [ But ] I never had to battle for my identity. I have always been me. – Aimee Osbourne	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The anticipation is getting closer and closer to my final Open championship and it's going to be a very special time, i feel maybe a little bit melancholy but the memories of all the years playing in the Open will make it pretty happy. I've had a wonderful experience playing here in the Open for these last 40 years. – Tom Watson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
As [ Duke of ] Wellington said, ‘ nothing save a battle loss is quite so melancholy as a battle won. ’ We won the battle and now we have to watch the movie. – Charles Krauthammer	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope. – James Henry Leigh Hunt	added by anonymous 9 years ago
As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work. – Charles Baudelaire	added by anonymous 9 years ago
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. – Lydia Child	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. – François Fénelon	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! – John Milton	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever. – Henry van Dyke	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Melancholy men are of all others the most witty. – Aristotle	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I'm like that, I love the melancholy, with all fragility, the beauty in the ugly.Can only create in chaos and darkness. – Czon	added by anonymous 11 years ago
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	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. – Charles Dickens, Bleak House	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis. – Abraham Myerson	added by anonymous 13 years ago

The night speaks volumes to those who understand melancholy fluently.

– S.A. Quinox

added by QuinoxPoetry
1 year ago

Suspicion and uneasiness gives an overall mysterious tone or even atonality to a piece, as in object in contention, something I always evaluate. Along with melancholy or disappointment, all of which are valid human emotions and sensitivities.”

– Adamo Macri

added by anonymous
2 years ago

His life had changed so drastically, he was not accustomed to not being in the best of health. That bothered him. And then not being able to spend time out in public - that took a big chunk out of his world. He was at peace on stage performing. And in reflecting on his life, he realized, ‘This is what the rest of my life is going to be.’ He was in a melancholy place really.

– Tony Oppedisano

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.

– Townes Van Zandt

added by RobertHaigh
2 years ago

They are 8 and 10. We just felt like we would wait until they were a little bit older, most of that stuff goes over their head anyway. But also it was just weird for them to watch dad on the television... it was really fun. It actually lightened the mood for my wife and I to have them laughing at everybody's ridiculousness. It kind of helped with the melancholy aspect of saying goodbye to the show and my fictional family.

– Ty Burrell

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It's scaring him, i think he's melancholy. He's very, very low right now.

– Juda Engelmayer

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only. Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more compleatly deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

– Thomas Jefferson

added by Normando
4 years ago

This drawing shows a certain wistfulness I think, a certain melancholy even, it's not Leonardo, the great philosopher gazing into the distance. It's a flesh and blood man at the end of a career that had achieved a great deal, but also maybe failed to achieve a great deal as well.

– Martin Clayton

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

When the time came to bring the' Transparent' journey to a close, it was clear that saying goodbye to Maura Pfefferman was our path forward, in this musical finale, we dramatize the death of Maura Pfefferman in an odyssey of comedy and melancholy told through the joyful prism of melody and dance.

– Jill Soloway

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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

– Arthur Wellesley

added by TrekReichen
5 years ago

It’s been a frustrating journey, a lot of trial and error. For years it felt like I was swimming in the ocean, all by Aimee Osbourne, i’ve lived through a lot of dark environments one way or another while growing up and that has influenced my songwriting. And, yes, I suppose melancholy is a running theme. [ But ] I never had to battle for my identity. I have always been me.

– Aimee Osbourne

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The anticipation is getting closer and closer to my final Open championship and it's going to be a very special time, i feel maybe a little bit melancholy but the memories of all the years playing in the Open will make it pretty happy. I've had a wonderful experience playing here in the Open for these last 40 years.

– Tom Watson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As [ Duke of ] Wellington said, ‘ nothing save a battle loss is quite so melancholy as a battle won. ’ We won the battle and now we have to watch the movie.

– Charles Krauthammer

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

– James Henry Leigh Hunt

added by anonymous
9 years ago

As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work.

– Charles Baudelaire

added by anonymous
9 years ago

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

– Lydia Child