#melancholy

A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn? ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#autumn #because #cousins #day #easter

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#am #biographical #business #i #i am

I am a melancholy type of person. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

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Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there. ↗

— Ismail Merchant

#emphasis #give #longing #love #melancholy

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#drinking #every #indeed #means #melancholy

Diabetes is caused by melancholy. ↗

— Thomas Willis

#diabetes #melancholy

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#eighteenth #eighteenth century #loathed #melancholy #whole

In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the blessed Apostle, of whom we have been speaking. ↗

— John Strachan

#applying #been #bishop #blessed #compare