“We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 151 of 412
“No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.”
“I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.”
“If you go into the eastern bloc countries we are huge, and in Russia. Maybe there is something about the depressing nature of our music and lyrics that some people find an affinity with.”
“When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep”
“Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We have now arrived at a stage in life so rich in new perceptions that cannot be transmitted to those at another stage - one feels at the same time full of so much gentleness and so much despair - the enigma of this life grows, grows, drowns one and crushes one, then all of a sudden in a supreme moment of light one becomes aware of the sacred.”
“A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.”
“I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it's a sad one.”
“From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.”
“It's the emotional punches that you can't see that are just overwhelmingly devastating to your heart - your moral fiber.”
“There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.”
“The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves. All of these people who are heroes, these guys who have been lily white and clean all their lives, if they went through what I went through, they would commit suicide. They don't have the heart that I have. I've lived places they can't defecate in.”
“In the first few seconds an aching sadness wrenched his heart, but it soon gave way to a feeling of sweet disquiet, the excitement of gypsy wanderlust”
“We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with the experience we've gained from the previous one. We leave childhood without knowing what youth is, we marry without knowing what it is to be married, and even when we enter old age, we don't know what it is we're heading for: the old are innocent children innocent of thier old age. In that sense, man's world is the planet of inexperience.”
“Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.”
“We go through the present blindfolded... Only later, when the blindfold is removed and we examine the past, do we realize what we've been through and understand what it means.”
“[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.”
“Those who don't know how to suffer are the worst off. There are times when the only correct thing we can do is to bear out troubles until a better day.”
“One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.”
“It takes a checkbook to change the world”