“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”

“The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.”

“Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.”

“Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?”

“She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content. Happiness filled the space of sadness.”

“Leo didn't usually think of the ukulele as a sad instrument. (Pathetic, sure. But not sad.) Yet the tune Apollo strummed was so melancholy it broke Leo's feels.”

“I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.”

“The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending--the sad endingsometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually theending.”

“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”

“Elysian beauty, melancholy grace,
Brought from a pensive though a happy place.”