Much of what happens to us in life is nameless because our vocabulary is too poor. Most stories get told out loud because the storyteller hopes that the telling of the story can transform a nameless event into a familiar or intimate one.
-John Berger, Confabulations
Mood is incommunicable, and when someone is in a euphoric mood, he is just as isolated in his own way as the melancholic: the individual's ultimate self-dependence (even loneliness) is exposed in mood.
- László F. Földényi, Melancholy