“Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 119 of 412
“We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.”
“An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.”
“Whyle I was abowte to chaunge myn olde lyff-- What sorowe I suffred, dyseese, angre and stryff, Cracchynge myn here, my chekys all totare, Wrythynge my fyngres for angwysshe and care, Watrynge the erthe with my byttre salte teres That the crye of my syghes ascended to Goddys eres, My knees with myn handys grasped togedyre soore, And yitt I stode the same man I was afore Tyl a depe profounde remembraunce att the laste Hadd all my wrecchednesse afore myn eyn caste”
“It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.”
“So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper ball. Here's what it said on the package; I kept it till I knew it by heart: 'Please Note. Parts are included for all installations, but no installation requires all of the parts.' That's kind of my philosophy about men. I don't think there's an installation out there that could use all my parts.”
“Synergistic convergence is the most important idea we have at our disposal to prevent collapse scenarios and move forward in a nonlinear manner toward an evolutionary society.”
“Our media, which is like a planetary nervous system, are far more sensitive to breakdowns than to breakthroughs. They filter out our creativity and successes, considering them less newsworthy than violence, war, and dissent. When we read newspapers and watch television news, we feel closer to a death in the social body than to an awakening.”
“Decorum -- that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.”
“And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”
“The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.”
“The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.”
“Anger can try to break your heart, but sorrow is what will. What can. What does.”
“From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel there's still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied.”
“Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.”
“My worst quality is impatience.”
“I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.”
“It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin.”
“There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.”
“In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence and grand desolution, all things recede to distrances out of reach, relecting light but impossible to touch, annihilating all thought and all that men have made to a spasm of whirling dust far out on the golden desert.”