“You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 146 of 412
“It's not the years honey, it's the mileage.”
“Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.”
“The wounds that cannot be seen are more painful than those that can be treated by a doctor.”
“In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a prey of worms, his soul an unquiet eddy, his fortune dark, his fame doubtful. In short, all that is body is as coursing waters, all that is of the soul as dreams and vapors.”
“Nothing dries sooner than a tear.”
“There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.”
“I had an economic system imposed on me.”
“The people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another; meetings which could take place between them, conversations, surprises, caresses, bites. But no one greets anyone; eyes lock for a second, then dart away, seeking other eyes, never stopping...something runs among them, an exchange of glances like lines that connect one figure with another and draw arrows, stars, triangles, until all combinations are used up in a moment, and other characters come on to the scene.”
“…we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes along its own trajectory and immediately disappears.”
“I wrote my first book in a toilet in a factory where I was a floor sweeper.”
“I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.”
“Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.”
“What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.”
“Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.”
“Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'”
“Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.”
“Old fools are greater fools than young ones.”
“All you violated ones with gentle hearts; You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak”
“Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.”