Melancholy Quote by Ali Smith

“It wasn't that they were unpleasant people; indeed, they were the sweetest things ever; they just enjoyed melancholy and seemed to take heart and…

— Howard Fast

“It was as if all the melancholy I’d ever known, all the nights I sat alone thinking life sucked, had added up to our…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“Once in a while, groundless melancholy would darken my face, a dull and incomprehensible nostalgia for times never experienced would invade me.”

— Clarice Lispector

“There is a melancholy that stems from greatness of mind.”

— Anonymous

“The biggest problem with melancholy is that it is more detailed than the world.”

— Lisa Robertson

“Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.”

— Raheel Farooq

“He didn't understand how sadness came so easily to people. For him it was like a pile of rocks that had to be moved…

— Nell Freudenberger

“A melancholy is a lot of melancholies.”

— Karin Johannisson

“We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“It's a peculiar kind of dissatisfaction, a bittersweet nostalgia for a moment not yet past.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“I sighed. Two goodbyes in one night. It was depressing. And it wasn’t as though I had a whole Rolodex full of friends. But…

— Barry Eisler

“She tried not to be gloomy at funerals. People lived, and died, and were remembered. It happened in the same way that winter followed…

— I Shall Wear Midnight Terry Pratchett