“My eyes, those sluts, those whores, would play no more.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 160 of 412
“Once I was a couple. I was my own king and queen with cheese and bread and rosé on the rocks of Rockport.”
“Now I am going back And I have ripped my hand From your hand as I said I would And I have made it this far.”
“The Witch's Life" When I was a child there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch. All day she peered from her second story window from behind the wrinkled curtains and sometimes she would open the window and yell: Get out of my life! She had hair like kelp and a voice like a boulder. I think of her sometimes now and wonder if I am becoming her.”
“I remember the stink of the liverwurst. How I was put on a platter and laid between the mayonnaise and the bacon. The rhythm of the refrigerator had been disturbed.”
“Every coming year is as bad as the previous one, the only difference being that in most cases it is even worse.”
“Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.”
“Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.”
“Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.”
“A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.”
“Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.”
“We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and willingly give up life itself.”
“I must confess that waltzes do not move me, I guess I hummed the blues too early, and spent too many midnights out wailing to the rain.”
“You mustnt give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get.”
“I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.”
“After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.”
“And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.”
“I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard.”
“Now there are heavy houses everywhere and more of them are being built. In fact, it is only when more houses are being constructed that some countries consider their economics healthy. Yet each house is a heavy footprint on the Earth. Just as all our possessions represent-if we cannot learn ways of sharing them-a weight and clutter that often means the faces of future generations will look up into darkness and the pressure on the Earth of "things."”
“I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.”