Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad. (Victor Hugo)
Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness. (Italo Calvino)
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt.. doubt is the beginning of despair, despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. (Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont)
Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy. (Virginia Woolf)
The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear. (William C Bryant)
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. (William Shakespeare)
What's done is done. (William Shakespeare)
We plan our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. (Kahlil Gibran)
When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. (Kahlil Gibran)
The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers. (Kahlil Gibran)