Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) - Gilles, c. 1718-19
"Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness."
"Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad."
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is part of ourselves. We must die to one life before we can enter another."
"One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad and indifferent: e.g. music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf."
"Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits."
"Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness."
Italo Calvino
"Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad."
Victor Hugo
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is part of ourselves. We must die to one life before we can enter another."
Anatole France
"One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad and indifferent: e.g. music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf."
Baruch Spinoza
"Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits."
Susan Sontag
