… and Victor Hugo once wrote that ‘Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad’.
Is it true that there are those who actually enjoy tears, or a heavy heart?
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“All my joys to this are folly, Naught so sweet as melancholy” – Robert Burton
December 7, 2007 by dianulya
Our sincerest laughter with some pain is fraught, our sweetest songs are those…. who said that? Well, melancholy is not a luxury of being sad, it’s a necessity forced on you by life. Pleasure comes from that sad realisation.
radicalhypocrite – interesting take.
… and the quote you mention is by Percy Bysshe Shelley:-
Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught: Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.