“If you have more than five goals, you have none.”
Melancholic feeling
Melancholic Quotes — page 12 of 412
“Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to life, old ones need to wither away.”
“No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”
“Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.”
“Looking back on the production of 'Nevermind,' I'm embarrassed by it now.' It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.”
“I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
“close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere”
“If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it's fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there's an arrow in your heart.”
“After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.”
“But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in the most humorous sadness.”
“I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again.”
“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.”
“A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.”
“Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.”
“I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me.”
“I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. I wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. It was all about... a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. I find beauty in melancholy.”
“O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!”
“Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.”
“We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has”
“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”