Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
-Victor Hugo
It is impious in a good man to be sad.
-William Shakespeare
She indulged in melancholy,
that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries.
-Charles Dickens
Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
-Mason Cooley
Never give way to melancholy;
resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
-Sydney Smith
I want happiness,
melancholy kills me little by little.
-Clarice Lispector
