“All analyses end badly. Each 'termination' leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths; each is absurd; each is a small, pointless death. Psychoanalysis cannot tolerate happy endings; it casts them off the way the body's immunological system casts off transplanted organs.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 117 of 412
“Out here on the perimeter there are no stars. Out here we is stoned. Immaculate.”
“The smiling portrait of you is still hanging on my frowning wall.”
“When reality looks too ugly, fantasize.”
“I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.”
“When public virtue is gone, when the national spirit is fled the republic is lost in essence, though it may still exist in form”
“Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years”
“A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory”
“The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.”
“The absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've died to that thing.”
“. . . women were brought up to have only one set of manners. A woman was either a lady or she wasn't, and we all know what the latter meant. Not even momentary lapses were allowed; there is no female equivalent of the boys-will-be-boys concept.”
“There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.”
“How hard it is for people to live without someone to look down upon-really to look down upon. It is not just that they feel cheated out of someone to hate. It is that they are compelled to look more closely into themselves and what they don't like about themselves.”
“Segregation...not only harms one physically but injures one spiritually...It scars the soul...It is a system which forever stares the segregated in the face, saying 'You are less than...''You are not equal to...'”
“Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.”
“A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.”
“We saw the strong trees struggle and their plumes do down, The poplar bend and whip back till it split to fall, The elm tear up at the root and topple like a crown, The pine crack at the base - we had to watch them all. The ash, the lovely cedar. We had to watch them fall. They went so softly under the loud flails of air, Before that fury they went down like feathers, With all the hundred springs that flowered in their hair, and all the years, endured in all the weathers - To fall as if they were nothing, as if they were feathers.”
“Even when someone gets to looking like she should be so proud of herself, instead she's like, 'I could be another three pounds less; I could be a little taller and have bigger lips.'”
“Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.”
“By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.”