“Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 155 of 412
“I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.”
“My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.”
“To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.”
“This is the Hour of Lead- Remembered, if outlived, As freezing persons, recollect the Snow- First-Chill-then Stupor- then the letting go---”
“I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again - it is hers yet - he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it.”
“Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring.”
“Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.”
“I've never wanted to grow up too fast. I wanted to wear a sports bra until I was 22! ... The allure of being sexy never really held any excitement for me. I've never been in a terrible rush to be seen as a woman.”
“There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.”
“It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. Not consciously, of course—for consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a cocoon, which in the end will completely envelop him.”
“The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.”
“The past is a bucket of ashes”
“I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.”
“My main memories of my father are of his illness.”
“I built you a sandcastle because you're a princess, but I tore it down because I'm a loser.”
“There was a long time in my life where I made music that I thought my friends would like, or that I thought would get me a record deal, or what I thought I was supposed to make because that's what I was seeing in mainstream. I didn't know myself; I didn't find myself musically or, in real life.”
“The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.”
“The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.”
“Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.”