“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.”

“There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.”

“A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.”

“At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.”

“Alas! The beauty
of the flowers has faded
and come to nothing,
while I have watched the rain,
lost in melancholy thought.”

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

“And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.”

“My great pleasure is creation—of this I never tire. Some of my guests have complained of a gentle melancholy which hangs in the air; I agree that the mood exists. The explanation, I believe, arises from the fugacity of beauty, the tragic pavanne to which all of us step.”

“You can choose whatever name you like for the two types of government. I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence "democracy", and the other "tyranny."”

“That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty”