“I don't know if I've ever been really loved by a hand that's touched me.”— Matchbox Twenty, open.spotify.com
“Where were we going? I mean, really, what was happening? This life, it was crazy. I felt tired. I mean, halfway through the season, I just felt, inside, I was so tired. And I had this wave of melancholy just like sweep through me.”— James Merendino, Stevo, Matthew Lillard, imdb.com
“The problem, right, between rum and gin, is that gin, right, it leads to the melancholy. Whereas rum incites violence, it also allows you to be liberated from your self-doubt.”— Steven Knight, Alfie Solomons, Tom Hardy, imdb.com
“Sadness has a strange size. Big enough to swell us, saturate our body. Small enough to fit through a 5mm pen tip.”— Quiara Alegría Hudes, twitter.com
“But there's one thing missing: that lovely, innocent smile. She still smiles from time to time, definitely a charming smile, but it's always limited somehow, a smile that never goes beyond the moment. A high, invisible wall surrounds her, holding people at arm's length.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Who shall unravel the mystery of a woman's weeping? Who shall declare whether it is pain or a relief to the over-charged heart? . . . When love's burning finger touches the pulse, and marks its slow or rapid beatings. And Thelma wept, as many of her sex weep, without knowing why, save that all sudde…”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“I want to resemble you, I want to hug you But it’s too much to even linger next to you I know it’s funny to compare myself to the great you”— Kim Jonghyun, open.spotify.com
“With time, even the white petals will wither Without remembering that they were once transparent Ah the sadness scatters it Ah the tears drench it”— Kim Jonghyun, open.spotify.com
“My line of vision has fallen Not because I lost you But I know I can’t hold you even if I miss you to death”— Kim Jonghyun, open.spotify.com
“Baby I’m so Lonely so Lonely I feel like I’m alone When I see you so tired I worry that I’m baggage to you That I’m too much Baby I’m so Lonely so Lonely I feel like I’m alone I don’t want to make it obvious to you I’m used to just holding it in Understand me”— Kim Jonghyun, Kim Taeyeon, open.spotify.com
“I’m thinking the reason I’ve been so quiet all those years is only because he wasn’t around yet for me to tell everything to.”— Jandy Nelson, amazon.com
“I turn and I slowly walk away and I don’t look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.”— James Frey, amazon.com
“More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if I wasn't alone.”— James Frey, amazon.com
“It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.”— Emily Haines, musicomh.com
“I like to be in my pajamas all day. Sometimes I don’t wash for days because I like to read and sit around. I like to eat in bed. I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I’m alone in the world and I’m just sort of abandoned. I’m not fun to be with.”— Jamaica Kincaid, content.time.com
“The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.”— Louis-Ferdinand Céline, amazon.com
“And so being young and dipped in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.”— Edgar Allan Poe, amazon.com