“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
“But solitude is sadness.''Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.”
“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”
“A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.”
“The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.”
“He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle.”