“On Sunday 8 April 1945, he had just finished conducting a service of worship at Schoenberg, when two soldiers came took him away. As he left, he said to another prisoner, This is the end - but for me, the beginning - of life. He was hanged the next day, less than a week before the Allies reached the camp.”
Melancholic feeling
Melancholic Quotes — page 100 of 412
“A worm tells summer better than the clock, The slug's a living calendar of days; What shall it tell me if a timeless insect Says the world wears away?”
“I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.”
“To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.”
“The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.”
“I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes.”
“When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything.”
“Passion goes, Boredom remains.”
“You can't move forward until you look back.”
“I was proud, excited and a little frightened. It was all taking off so quickly…the more successful the boys were, the further away from me John felt. I was getting used to being a mum, but most of the time I felt like a single parent…it was hard not to feel frustrated with being stuck at home. I loved Julian, but I knew that if I hadn’t had him I could have seen much more of John and that was hard…I felt shut off from the life he was living. After years at his side, I was excluded, just as it was all happening.”
“I am this fiery snail crawling home.”
“I smoke to fill the potholes in my soul”
“The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.”
“Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.”
“There's not even room enough to be anywhere/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.../I was born here and I'll die here against my will/I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still.”
“We may appear to be mean but we're really only frightened.”
“Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.”
“When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much more carefully covered up by hypocrisy and glittering words than is the case today. By the mere existence of his stomach everyone was condemned to participate in that chase. The stomach might well be satisfied by such participation, but not man insofar as he is a thinking and feeling being.”
“At 20 everyone has the face that God gave them, at 40 the face that life gave them, and at 60 the face they earned.”
“Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.”