“I was fat! I was pustule-rich! I looked like a pink human grenade! When did I blossom into the irresistible little orchid that I am now? I don't know. Getting taller helps. It spreads out a bit.”
Melancholic feeling
Melancholic Quotes — page 109 of 412
“Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.”
“You may still be here tomorrow...but your dreams may not.”
“At my core, the glass isn't half-empty, it's not even what I ordered in the first place.”
“We obtain things when we no longer want them.”
“I’m 23 right now and I feel like I’m still trying to figure it out. Maybe in another two years, I’ll have it all together. So maybe 25 is the age at which a woman feels her most beautiful just because she’s survived her teenage years and early twenties.”
“the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.”
“I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age”
“Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, but telling us proudly of its own might and strength, as when, seven hundred years ago, it rang with the clash of arms, or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry.”
“We know that our life is essentially tragic. I'm absolutely not for handing over that very important department of our psyche to those who say, "Why didn't you say so before? God has a plan for you in mind."”
“Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.”
“What makes us leave what we love best? What is it inside us that keeps erasing itself When we need it most, That sends us into uncertainty for its own sake And holds us flush there until we begin to love it And have to begin again? What is it within our own lives we decline to live Whenever we find it, making our days unendurable, And nights almost visionless? I still don't know yet, but I do it.”
“Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.”
“The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.”
“in china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you”
“All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.”
“Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.”
“It was a hot afternoon and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along the street. How can I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?”
“An evening everyone agrees, is a lost evening.”
“Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.”