“This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.”
Melancholic feeling
Melancholic Quotes — page 159 of 412
“My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.”
“Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.”
“How beautiful the yesterday that stood Over me like a rainbow! I am alone, The past is past. I see the future stretch All dark and barren as a rainy sea.”
“Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph”
“That's where I spent of lot of my high-school years -- in the closet. It wasn't too cramped, but you do get really hot.”
“Youth condemns; maturity condones”
“I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream.”
“Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.”
“At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.”
“I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.”
“On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.”
“Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something you only half-did or quarter did.”
“The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . .”
“You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age.”
“We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.”
“Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you.”
“All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.”
“In a dream you are never eighty.”
“Earth, earthriding your merry-go-roundtoward extinction,right to the rootsthickening the oceans like gravy,festering in your caves,you are becoming a latrine.”