I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.
Something about the goat dancing made me want to cry.
Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.
Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
Melancholy is a state that I very much enjoy being in, actually. It's not the same as feeling sad. It's a more complex emotion; it derives from a tragic view of the world, a tragic view of art.
It makes me sad, sad inside, to see a warrior without his pride.
Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
