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
- Robert BurtonMelancholy is the pleasure of being sad
- Victor HugoMelancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness
- Italo CalvinoI have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge