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| Depression är melankoli minus dess charm. | Susan Sontag (1933-2004) |
| Jag lever i stort sett med positivt laddad deppighet, och kämpar hela tiden för att inte vicka över i sentimentalitet. | Thomas Dybdahl (1979-) |
| Melankoli är glädjen över att vara bedrövad | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| Melankoli er glæden ved at være trist. | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy. | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy | Robert Burton (1577-1640) |
| Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness | Italo Calvino (1923-1985) |
| I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) |