Robert Zemeckis

No one can actually define love, but you attempt to, and the closest you can get is longing. And that itself has a melancholy to it. You can say dread, or doom - it's that feeling we all feel when we fall in love with someone: we have this horrible, fearful feeling that maybe we will never have that person in our life.

American Director

Jason Mraz

It's from being melancholy and having my human down experiences that I learn, that I overcome, that I transform - and these realizations I put into song. That's what I choose to put in my backpack and carry with me around the world.

American Musician

Gail Sheehy

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!

American Writer

Garrett Dillahunt

I'm drawn to melancholy characters. I don't know what that says about me. Characters who are filled with shame. I think shame is interesting.

Gautham Menon

In everybody's life, there is love, there is sorrow, there is melancholy. And there might be danger as well.

Indian Director

Karen Elson

I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancholy romance.

English Model

Paul McCartney

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

English Singer

Jonathan Coe

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.

English Novelist

Sandra Bullock

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.

American Actress

Charles Dickens

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Use 'melancholy' to describe someone's sad emotional state, not just a temporary bad mood.

Emotional State

'Melancholy' often implies a quiet, reflective type of sadness as opposed to loud or dramatic.

Subtle Expression

In literature, 'melancholy' can be associated with romanticism, where sadness has a poetic quality.

Cultural Reference

As a noun, 'melancholy' denotes a deep, pensive sadness often without an obvious cause.

Inner Sorrow

'Melancholy' can imply a thoughtful or philosophical sadness, rather than just feeling unhappy.

Not Just Sadness

Describe art or events as 'melancholy' to convey an atmosphere that evokes sadness.

Setting the Mood

In music and storytelling, 'melancholy' describes a tone that might bring out emotions and introspection.

Artistic Tone

'Melancholy' has an archaic medical context, once used to describe a mental illness.

Historical Usage

Today, 'melancholy' as a clinical term has been replaced by more specific diagnoses like depression.

Archaic Medical Term

 He would make many melancholy reflections upon the precariousness of human life, and when all these humane sentiments had been once fairly expressed, he would pursue his business or his pleasure with the same ease and tranquility as if no such accident had happened. If he was to lose his little finger tomorrow,

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 wonder I don't really know how else to put it other than there was something about her that was so youthful and yet I could still see in her eyes like the depth of of sadness that you know that life the life experience had had given her so there was this really kind of beautiful blend of melancholy yet hope

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 and I asked them what plays were speaking to them and helping them process this time. Many of the characters in the plays they sent don't share my lived experience. And I think their words are important to hear. My friend Jeremy sent me a monologue by Sarah Ruhl from her "Melancholy Play."

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 and in that discussion, you'll find a strong argument that sadness is not only an inevitable part of life but an essential one. If you've never felt melancholy, you've missed out on part of what it means to be human. Many thinkers contend that melancholy is necessary in gaining wisdom.

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 However, when I perform my own music as a solo artist, I tend to gravitate towards more melancholy sounds. A few years ago, I gave my mom the rough mixes of a new album, and she said, "Baby, it's beautiful, but why is it always so sad?"

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 she suddenly realized that it was time for her to start a different journey and so she decided to go home as you can imagine this is a huge shake-up for all of us so there were a lot of emotions and I think it was a really melancholy

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 Well, this sounds very energetic, doesn't it? So within a couple of minutes, and the piece isn't even finished yet, I experienced two very contrasting beautiful melancholy and sheer energy. And I consider these two elements to be

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 But the self-loathing of that period left a void, and celebration needs to fill and overflow it, and even if I repay my private debt of melancholy, there's still an outer world of homophobia that it will take decades to address.

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 or what we'd now call lead poisoning. Artists who worked with lead complained of palseys, melancholy, coughing, enlarged retinas, and even blindness. But lead white's density, opacity, and warm tone

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 is of a completely different nature. It has a deep melancholy ring. Children don't like it. It's why they leave lights on around the house. Adults find it comforting.

Melancholy

Feeling or showing deep sadness or depression.

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State of sadness or depression.

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Causing feelings of sadness.

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Old term for a type of depression marked by persistent sadness.

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