“And I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart slowly, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and nothing but herself and her mom in those last moments as she spent as a person.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 150 of 412
“Maybe all the strings inside him broke.”
“Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.”
“I can't remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity.”
“It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.”
“And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.”
“When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.”
“Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God's holy vision, and sliding away like a tear down his face.”
“We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.”
“... it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
“It's very hard to be an experimental woman writer. If I had been writing under a pseudonym, just initials, I might have a different reputation - but, then I couldn't be myself either.”
“You will never make it. ‘It’ doesn’t exist for an artist.”
“If a man goes into business with only the idea of making money, the chances are he won't.”
“You grew old first not in your own eyes, but in other people's eyes; then, slowly, you agreed with their opinion of you.”
“I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.”
“For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.”
“Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.”
“Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.”
“California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things better work here, because here, beneath the immense bleached sky,is where we run out of continent.”
“I think because I did a lot of modelling and appeared in lads mags a lot of women didn't necessarily warm to me. But now I have been through childbirth, post-natal depression and struggled with my weight, women seem to relate to me a lot more.”