“Things you believe are baggage in your life.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 113 of 412
“The dream is damned and dreamer too if dreaming's all that dreamers do.”
“Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. That undressing, and the beautiful naked body underneath, is the sweetness that comes after grief.”
“I should've died a hundred thousand times,Teetering stoned off the side of a building.Nobody loved me and nobody even triedYou can't hang on to something that won't stop moving.Singing and dancing to them nighttime songs.”
“All The Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas Layin' In The Sun, Talkin' 'Bout The Things They Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda Done... But All Those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas All Ran Away And Hid From One Little Did.”
“For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.”
“Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.”
“a process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as one of those useless great-grandfathers who wander about the bedroom like shades, dragging their feet, remembering better times aloud, and whom no one bother about or remembers really until the morning they find them dead in their bed.”
“We have lost awe and wonder. In reference to the mystery of life itself, we've lost respect for movement in our planet.”
“When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.”
“Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!”
“I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation - with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals. Even if, deep in my heart, I thought we were all blind atoms in a world as limited as a stroke of a pendulum, I and my sort would struggle against tradition; try, at least, to displace old cants with new ones. I've thought I was right about life at various times, but faith is difficult. One thing I know. If living isn't seeking for the grail it may be a damned amusing game.”
“Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.”
“A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.”
“I think they were scared of me because I was different.”
“True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.”
“To a pure heart all hearts are pure.”
“I alone have the mind of a fool, and am all muddled and vague. The people are so smart and bright. While I am just dull and confused.”
“They can see their neighbors. Roosters and dogs can be heard from there. Still, they will age and die without visiting one another.”
“My fingers curl through the holes in the wicker, through the wet grass beneath it, trying to hold tight to the sharp blades of the present. Somewhere in my brain a sinkhole is bubbling over, and each bubble contains a scene from a tiny sunken world ... I have never been the prophet of my own past before. It makes me wonder how the healthy dreamers can bear to sleep at all, if sleep means that you have to peer into that sinkhole by yourself. ... I had almost forgotten this occipital sorrow, the way you are so alone with the things you see in dreams.”