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

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.

I'm so involved in melancholy.

I'm always drawn to melancholy personalities.

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

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

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.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.

There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.