“Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life.”
Melancholic feeling
Melancholic Quotes — page 139 of 412
“No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.”
“I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.”
“Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.”
“When we lose twenty pounds... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty.”
“It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity.”
“I tend not to look back. It's confusing.”
“I ended up at fifty, over-the-hill, thinking I had no future. Finally, I realized that I had allowed myself to write less than I could. ... As writers true to ourselves, it will always be hard, and if we're good, we'll always be in trouble. Let's be sure we deserve it.”
“He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.”
“Jacopo Belbo didnt understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all his life. Not recognizing it, he spent the rest of his days seeking something else, until he damned himself.”
“All time is unreedemable.”
“I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.”
“You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house and now you fear burglars. You have hoarded money and lost sleep. See what greed has commanded you: "Do this!" And you did it.”
“I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing.”
“I wasnt born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.”
“And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one must have the great patience to wait until they come again. For it is not yet the memories themselves. Not until they have turned to blood within us, to glance, to gesture, nameless and no longer to be distinguished from ourselves - not until then can it happen that in a most rare hour the first word of a verse arises in their midst and goes forth from them.”
“A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!”
“Make the most of now before it all changes because one day right now is going to be a memory.”
“I don't think it's the most important thing in life to fit it. I think it's the most important thing in life to dance to the beat of your own drum and to look like you're having more fun than the people who look cool like they fit in.”
“I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.”