“We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.”
Melancholic feeling
Melancholic Quotes — page 154 of 412
“The present will not long endure.”
“A house is not a home.”
“When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear.”
“Those spacious regions where our fancies roam, Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come, In some dread moment, by the fates assign'd, Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind; And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last The speed that spins the future and the past: And, sovereign of an undisputed throne, Awful eternity shall reign alone.”
“Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity”
“In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.”
“I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.”
“I was a grill cook at McDonalds for a little bit. I did landscape for a little bit. I played a lot in the bar scene, I played countless sets of acoustic songs in that arena.”
“I still have a lot of passion for music, but I would quit it tomorrow if that's what my family needed me to do. I'm sure I'd miss it, but it's a job.”
“A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.”
“The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason... affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.”
“Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.”
“We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile - The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry”
“Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.”
“Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.”
“Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart.”
“Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.”
“When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.”
“Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.”