#melancholy

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. ↗

— Amelia Barr

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Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. ↗

— Francis Beaumont

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But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing. ↗

— Paul McCartney

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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

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I am a melancholy type of person. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

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We have the melancholy dilemma of not being in a state to make peace or to prosecute war. ↗

— George Montagu

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

— George Saintsbury

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another! ↗

— Gail Sheehy

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When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

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He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

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