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

“You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down”

“He looked around the landscape. Drenched in the golden haze of late afternoon it seemed wonderfully tranquil and beautiful, though permeated with a sense of remoteness and even melancholy, like a scene remembered from one’s youth.”

“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”

“There shall he love when genial morn appears,
Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears.”

“Who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances, far better by comparing them as conscientiously as we can with other varieties of melancholy, happiness, and trance, than by refusing to consider their place in any more general series, and treating them as if they were outside of nature's order altogether?”

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

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

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

“Faith is the champion of grace, and love the nurse; but humility is the beauty of grace.”