A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories (1914), by P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975)
noun
a feeling of deep sadness
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France (1844-1924)
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