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“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
― Italo Calvino

“What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”
― Victor Hugo

“I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry.

Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.”
― Ray Bradbury, Green Shadows, White Whale

“I am my heart’s undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow.”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

“A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

“Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.”
― Emil Cioran, All Gall is Divided: Aphorisms

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

“Different people have irresolvably different views of the good life – not only at different periods of history and in different forms of society, but even in our own culture at the present time.”
― J.L. Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong

“The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

“I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.”
― Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins

“The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.”
― Marianne Moore