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Topic·Melancholy✕clear

We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

To a Skylark · 1820

★ 1.9

Philosophical literature

All my joys to this are folly, Naught so sweet as melancholy.

The Anatomy of Melancholy · 1621

★ 1.9

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 2.0

Play · Comedy (play)

By heaven, I do love, and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be melancholy.

William Shakespeare

Love's Labour's Lost · 1597

★ 3.5

The most despairing songs are the loveliest of all, I know immortal ones composed only of tears.

Alfred de Musset

1835

★ 3.5

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.

Alfred Tennyson

The Princess · 1847

★ 3.5

I have been one acquainted with the night.

1928

★ 3.6

He felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness—the sense that that is where we really belong.

The Heart of the Matter · 1948

★ 3.6

Autobiography and memoir

We headed home holding hands. For a moment I dropped back to watch him walk. His sailor's gait always touched me. I knew one day I would stop and he would keep on going, but until then nothing could tear us apart.

2010

★ 3.6

Song · Country music

It was a real slow walk in a real sad rain.

Drive On · 1994

★ 4.6

Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves suck back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Aegean.

Dover Beach · 1867

★ 5.2

There's not a string attuned to mirth But has its chord in melancholy.

Ode to Melancholy · 1827

★ 5.3