“As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.”
Melancholic feeling
Melancholic Quotes — page 135 of 412
“The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her from a plump active little woman with a neatly-turned foot and ankle into something as vast and august as a natural phenomenon. She had accepted this submergence as philosohpically as all her other trials, and now, in extreme old age, was rewarded by presenting to her mirror an almost unwrinkled expanse of firm pink and white flesh, in the centre of which the traces of a small face survived as if awaiting excavation.”
“traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.”
“We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested. The flower that wilted last year is gone. Petals once fallen are fallen forever. Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced. It is in this difference between returned and replaced that the price of renewal is paid. And as it is for spring flowers, so it is for us.”
“Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends”
“The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.”
“This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.”
“From perfect grief there need not beWisdom or even memory;One thing then learned remains to me -The woodspurge has a cup of three.”
“Most people die at 25 but are buried at 75.”
“Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.”
“Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.”
“Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.”
“Since early middle ages when people generally taking away the barbarity of their like, were pretty content. Although it was all an illicit contentment, what with the slave systems all over the world, in England especially, the peasants and the master, etc. People were incredibly content.”
“Each minute bursts in the burning room,The great globe reels in the solar fire,Spinning the trivial and unique away.(How all things flash! How all things flare!)What am I now that I was then?May memory restore again and againThe smallest color of the smallest day:Time is the school in which we learn,Time is the fire in which we burn.”
“This is a great shame, but of course there have to be some things in life that not everybody can have, and great perfume is one of them.”
“Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.”
“We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.”
“The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.”
“Some things look better inside of the store.”
“The days are cold, the nights are long, The North wind sings a doleful song; Then hush again upon my breast; All merry things are now at rest, Save thee, my pretty love!”