“I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 13 of 412
“Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.”
“It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.”
“Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.”
“When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.”
“We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.”
“I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound.”
“If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.”
“Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.”
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people.”
“How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
“Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.”
“The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.”
“I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.”
“Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.”
“My way of life Is fall'n into the sear and yellow leaf.”
“Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle.”
“Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names of their sons. Childless lords sat in aged halls musing on heraldry or in high cold towers asking questions of the stars. And so the kingdom of Gondor sank into ruin, the line of kings failed, the white tree withered and the rule of Gondor was given over to lesser men.”
“But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay.”
“When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses had grown sombre. The space of sky above us was the colour of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns. The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed. Our shouts echoed in the silent street.”