“Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 14 of 412
“A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.”
“Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.”
“But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost.”
“But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.”
“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
“The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.”
“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.”
“I could wish for nothing more than to die for a childish dream in which I truly believed.”
“Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.”
“I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”
“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
“I search but never find, hurt but never cry I work and forever try but I'm cursed, so never mind.”
“I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.”
“Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.”
“Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.”
“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
“History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.”
“Every moment is nothing without end.”
“Here ends the SILMARILLION. If it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old the fate of Arda Marred; and if any change shall come and the Marring be amended, Manwë and Varda may know; but they have not revealed it, and it is not declared in the dooms of Mandos.”