'angry' vs. 'melancholic'

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<crass generalisation> People can all be split up in to the angry and the melancholic: everyone will either get sad and self-pitying or mad and self-righteous when things don't go their way. which are you</crass generalisation>

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

definitelty possible to be both simultaneously.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 09:56 (twenty-two years ago)

it's possible but perhaps more unusual. I definitely go back to melancholy when on a downer but my ex-GF was very much an angry type. NOT THE BEST COMBINATION: one silent sulker vs one shouting type...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)

WHY ARE YOU BEING SO QUIET??? TALK TO ME!

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 10:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I sulk, always!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 10:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I tend to go the melancholic/self-pitying way more often, I'd say. though I do angry, too. you've got to vary it.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha I get sad, self-pitying, angry and self-righteous all at once. I don't like me very much when I'm upset.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Melancholy is more fundamental to me.

But acid and spleen are important.

― the bluefox, Wednesday, 28 April 2004 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been said to be sanguine. Better that than saturnine.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

um, all of the above? like the rest of my family, i'm a world-class sulker - one for melancholy. i like to break things - one for angry. i declare a draw.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I can be both. Although I tend to become melancholy far more often.

― mandee, Wednesday, 28 April 2004 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

a big difference between the two is that my anger is always a response to something, whereas melancholy can descend upon me for no apparent reason.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

melancholy is much less of an insular self-pitying sadness, to me it implies more being happy-ish now and again but generally sad with the state of the world, rather than the state of the self.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I am both, which is probably why I end up getting labeled a curmudgeon.

― El Diablo Curmudgeonbotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

dude, you don't strike me as a curmudgeon at all.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

i mix it up. i don't tend to get angry ever when i am on my own.

― Mr. Beaumonster, Thursday, 29 April 2004 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

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