“sometimes you get run down. sometimes life throws dirt in your eyes and it stings and you can't see for a few minutes. even after you get it out your eyes are all red and your vision is shitty... but eventually, whether through tears or maybe just time... you start to see even clearer than before. life is not always good. which is why music exists. why i believe God exists. and why there's always a pint of coconut milk ice cream in my freezer.”
Melancholic feeling
Melancholic Quotes — page 105 of 412
“What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all.”
“Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.”
“Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.”
“There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces.”
“In Montreal spring is like an autopsy. Everyone wants to see the inside of the frozen mammoth. Girls rip off their sleeves and the flesh is sweet and white, like wood under green bark. From the streets a sexual manifesto rises like an inflating tire, “the winter has not killed us again!”
“Color don't tell if people Black. It's the soul.”
“We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh”
“Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.”
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”
“The foolishness of chasing the moon ached my heart. I was stuck between the moon and the shore and surrounded by an empty sea.”
“There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.”
“There are things that happen so quickly. A better cameraman can capture them, but if the light is not bright and you hoist up your camera by the time you've dialed in your settings. There are eye blink moments where you're like "Aaahhhh, I wish," but those are too many to catalogue. Nothing really sticks out.”
“The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark”
“I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.”
“When we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men.”
“Upon my weary heart was showered smiles, plaudits and flowers, but beyond them I saw troubles and thorns innumerable.”
“I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.”
“We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.”
“I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.”