The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.
The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.
Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy.
Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.
We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.
If I were immersed in constant melancholy, I would not be who I am.
There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.
Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.