Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened.
My joy is as painful as my pain.
'My Swan Song' - that song is so depressing but uplifting at the same time, you know what I mean?
Nostalgia is a strange and powerful emotion. As much we try and fight it and fight ourselves, it's very hard not to.
Sometimes what makes a great song is that bittersweet combination - a really heartfelt song, whether good or bad, mixed with something that gets you going.
Nothing has ever been so painful or delicious as being so close to him and being unable to do anything about it: like eating ice cream so fast on a hot day you get a splitting headache.
She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness. It was the way she felt when she looked at the stars.
How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet.
It's easier to believe in this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness, that brings me to my knees.
No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.
All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.
I like being nostalgic and maybe crying a little bit.
I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.
There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
I am happy and satisfied at the end of my career, but not much. Yes, I would have loved to leave the stage in a better way.
