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The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.

— Albert Pike

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

'Melancholy' is prettier than 'depression'; it connotes a kind of nocturnal grace. Makes one feel more innocently beleaguered.

— Margo Jefferson

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.

— Nicolas Chamfort

I think melancholy is part of the natural condition, you know. Anyway, I think it's the artist's function to have their melancholy and not hide it, you see.

— Michael Leunig

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

— Austin O'Malley

I like the contrast in making something that sounds sunny but also has an element of melancholy to it.

— Jamie xx

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

— Sandra Bullock

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

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

— Anatole France

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

— Charlotte Bronte

✗Opposing Perspectives

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.

— John Drinkwater