Melancholy Romantic Gifts

"Half-full. Those were the days."

Bored couple.

"I've got those 'Don't worry about me, I'll just be here, all alone' blues."

"Events seem to be headed in the right direction. Unfortunately, it's not taking me with it."

"The artist-in-residence is struggling a bit, but other than that we're fine."

Lord Byron

"In closing, I'd just like to say you've been a great crowd, folks. Don't forget to tip your waitress, and I hope this final number breaks your heart the way show business broke mine."

"These brisk fall afternoons remind me of Chekhov, which reminds me of Putin, then Trump, the alt-right, facism, nuclear weapons ... let's go home."

'I hate my life.

'Dreams of how it might have been.'

"Woke up this mornin', Found myself trapped in the Blues genre..."

Trilby - 'Malbrouck s'en va-t'en guerre'.

Books: Success stories & Sob stories.

"Perhaps a dirge would lift your spirits?"

"I asked Bill to accompany this presentation with something in a haunting minor key."

"I never got a chance to say 'Shut up.' "

'I think our marriage would make a great country song.'

Man has storm cloud umbrella.

Items from the Fall 2018 Melancholia Catalogue.

Tears

"Fall makes him sad."

Floating away

"I like sad songs."

Where the boulevard of broken dreams crosses the avenue of broken appliances...

"I'm full of an unspeakable sadness and it goes a little something like this..."

Tailpiece to E Dowson's 'The Pierrot of the Minute'

There's a tear in my beer.

'Boy...usually it just gently weeps.'

Brenda Sanchez undergoes her daily moment of ‘Woe Is me.'

Looking miserable out there today...

'Your work is so bleak, so despairing, your angst so wrenching. I've never read a party invitation quite like it before.'

"This drink? It's called loneliness. Care to join me?"

"I've had an unlucky life, my first wife died and my second wife wont"

"I'm not sad, just a little melon collie."