“One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 10 of 412
“In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.”
“Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.”
“Our scars make us know that our past was for real”
“If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?”
“Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.”
“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
“I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way.”
“I have never worked for fame or praise, and shall not feel their loss as I otherwise would. I have never for a moment lost sight of the humble life I was born to, its small environments, and the consequently little right I had to expect much of myself, and shall have the less to censure, or upbraid myself with for the failures I must see myself make.”
“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
“We lost the skyline We stepped right off the map Drifted into black space And let the clocks relapse.”
“As for the primitive, I hark back to it because we are still very primitive. How many thousands of years of culture, think you, have rubbed and polished at our raw edges? One probably; at the best, no more than two. And that takes us back to screaming savagery, when, gross of body and deed, we drank blood from the skulls of our enemies, and hailed as highest paradise the orgies and carnage of Valhalla.”
“A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.”
“An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.”
“I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.”
“I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect”
“I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.”
“Just because it's all you want, doesn't mean it's all you need.”
“I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.”