“Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)”
Melancholic feeling
Melancholic Quotes — page 15 of 412
“In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by the slightest breeze. It is spirit, such as it is, which led me to poetry, at first little more than a pastime, then the full business of my life. There have been times when my spirit, so dejected, almost gave up the quest, other times when it was proud, triumphant. So it has been from the very start, never finding peace with itself, always doubting the worth of what it makes.”
“Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane”
“This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.”
“At best Americans give but a limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or exhaust its meaning or pleasure, there is something new to concern us. Ours is the tempo of the motion picture, not that of the still camera, and we waste experience as we wasted the forest.”
“I'm growing older, but not up.”
“Only time will tell if it was time well-spent”
“Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which is not yours to give and the repose that dies before it is born. The years of fear and shame to which Heaven now set a term, renew nothing in me but the old sweet error in which, living overlong a man kills his soul with no gain to his body. I say and I know having put it to the proof, that he has the better part in Heaven whose death falls nearest his birth.”
“In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.”
“There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out.”
“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.”
“There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer.”
“Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.”
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
“As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.”
“I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.”
“The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, and conceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday our body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child, who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth.”
“Those who arrive at the end of the journey are not those who began.”
“Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.”
“Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.”