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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

Lord Byron

'I hate my life.

'Dreams of how it might have been.'

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

DOUR and TROUBADOUR

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

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

Books: Success stories & Sob stories.

"Perhaps a dirge would lift your spirits?"

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

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

Tears

Man has storm cloud umbrella.

Floating away

Items from the Fall 2018 Melancholia Catalogue.

"Fall makes him sad."

Death awaits the last leaf of Autumn with a rake.

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

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

There's a tear in my beer.

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

"I like sad songs."

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

'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?"

Looking miserable out there today...

Why must you have "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" on the jukebox? A lot of people complained that "Happy Hour" was too happy.

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