David Rakoff

I'm not sure. But that bless-his/her-heart kind of melancholic humor is among my favorite things in the world. I guess it exposes a kind of humanity - or that's the hope, at least - a kind of grudging respect for human frailty. Unless it's actually kicking human frailty while it's down - I'm not sure.

Canadian Writer

Benjamin Clementine

I personally wouldn't want my second album to sound like my first; it might sound very rocky or hard rock - and that wouldn't be melancholy. So if people think my music is melancholic, then so be it. It's meant to be uplifting, and I'm just basically saying what needs to be said.

English Artist

Saara Aalto

I think it's mainly the language barrier and the cultural barrier, but of course also my songs, they have been very serious and melancholic, and so maybe people need to see more of my bubbly side and my personality.

Finnish Model

Moby

In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I make or that other people make that really resonates with me.

American Musician

Monica Bellucci

Usually, I'm only sad when something sad happens. I am not a melancholic person. I like to live very much in the present. If I was an animal, I'd be a little cat. They like to live life.

Italian Actress

Katie Melua

I love winter. It's a beautiful time, but also a melancholic time, a reflective time, and I'd come to a point in my life where I felt I had to make certain decisions about my career.

Georgian Musician

Gregory Smith

The character I played on 'Everwood' was so serious and melancholic that after doing it for four years, it really started affecting my soul. I was becoming Ephram.

Canadian Actor

Patricia Kaas

I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

French Musician

Anton Corbijn

I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.

Dutch Director

Eileen Myles

As a human being, I'm kind of a cheery melancholic. I have energy; I'm happy.

American Poet

Use 'melancholic' when someone is sad without an obvious reason, not just for any sadness.

No Clear Reason

'Melancholic' often suggests a temporary state of sadness, not a long-term condition.

Temporary Mood

Remember 'melancholic' has a historical link to ancient medicine that's rarely relevant today.

Historical Roots

'Melancholic' can describe someone who's often thoughtful and solitary, seeming distant.

Reflective Loneliness

Sometimes, 'melancholic' can have a positive or romantic feeling, not just negative.

Not Always Negative

Use 'melancholic' to emphasize the seriousness of depression, indicating it's not to be taken lightly.

Medical Seriousness

'Melancholic' can relate to clinically recognized states of depression in psychology.

Psychological Condition

 melancholic backdrop to the first attempts to climb Mount Everest for the entire generator of men who had been through the nightmare of the war death held no mysteries they had seen so much of it that had nothing left to teach them and

Wade Davis: Into the...

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 to the prince’s own cackling meditation on mortality, Shakespeare uses melancholic monologues to breathtaking effect. This is perhaps best exemplified in Hamlet’s most famous declaration of

Why should you read...

 Well this sounds very melancholic, doesn't it? And I turned the page and what came next was this.