"Melancholy is the happiness of being sad...." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.”

“He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.”

“I write with one hand, but I fight with both.”

“There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.”

“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.”

“It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.”

“We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.”

“I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart”

“I never know what to tell them. I mean, there's nothing you can say to make a person stop hurting. Half the time, I just feel like telling them the truth. I'd say that for 3 months, you're going to feel worse than you've ever felt and you cope as best you can. And that after 6 months, the pain isn't so bad, but it still hurts more than you think it will. And even after years, you still find yourself thinking about the person you lost and get sad about it. And you still miss them all the time.”