“It's like my whole life never happened, When I see you, it's as if I never had a thought. I know this dream, it might be crazy, But it's the only one I've got.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 122 of 412
“When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.”
“I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now Im spending years of my life trying to get away from it.”
“Being single is like liking a Phil Spector record.”
“In the days when Glastonbury was an alternative festival, it was quite interesting. Now it is the most bourgeois thing on the planet ... we'll leave the middle classes to do Glastonbury and the rest of the great unwashed will decamp to Knebworth and drink a lot of beer and have fun.”
“Friends come in herds and they leave in herds. Hollywood loves an adventure, but you have to hit bottom. Then they love to save you and be a part of it. Or think they're a part of it.”
“Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.”
“Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful -- if strenuously led -- as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.”
“I am a melancholy type of person.”
“There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.”
“Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes. You could just paint my face - it's like a blank canvas. It can be great for what I do.”
“I still think I'm like the poor girl from Colorado who worked three jobs to buy a car. That's still my mentality, so I'll be walking down the street, and I forget what I do and who I am.”
“The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.”
“We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.”
“I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.”
“Do you like me?” No answer. Silence bounced, fell off his tongue and sat between us and clogged my throat. It slaughtered my trust. It tore cigarettes out of my mouth. We exchanged blind words, and I did not cry, I did not beg, but blackness filled my ears, blackness lunged in my heart, and something that had been good, a sort of kindly oxygen, turned into a gas oven.”
“Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out.”
“Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.”
“I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have.”
“I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was a part of me that enjoyed hating school, and the drama of not going, the potential consequences whatever they were. I was intrigued by the unknown. I was even slightly thrilled that my mother was such a mess. Had I become addicted to crisis? I traced my finger along the windowsill. 'Want something normal, want something normal, want something normal', I told myself.”