“Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 162 of 412
“So quick bright things come to confusion.”
“No reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head.”
“Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys; renown, and grace is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.”
“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.”
“You'll find as you go through life that great depth and smoldering sensuality don't always win.”
“All my life is passing in front of my eyes. The worst part of it is I'm driving a used car.”
“There is dignity in suffering; nobility in pain; but failure is a salted wound, that burns and burns again!”
“A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.”
“So far as the colleges go, the side-shows have swallowed up the circus, and we don't know what is going on in the main tent: and I don't want to continue as ringmaster under those conditions.”
“It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.”
“The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension.”
“In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good unless you can see a symbol hiding, like a scared gerbil, under every page. And in many creative writing course the little beasts multiply, the place swarms with them. What does this Mean? What does that Symbolize? What is the Underlying Mythos? Kids come lurching out of such courses with a brain full of gerbils. And they sit down and write a lot of empty pomposity, under the impression that that’s how Melville did it.”
“The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel.”
“My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.”
“No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince.”
“The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?”
“Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.”
“Children who are decked with prince's robes and who have jeweled chains round their necks lose all pleasure in play; their dress hampers them at every step. In fear that it may be frayed, or stained with dust, they keep themselves from the world and are afraid ever to move. Mother, it is no gain, thy bondage of finery, if it keep one shut off from the healthful dust of the earth, if it rob one of the right of entrance to the great fair of common human life.”
“Pride dies 20 minutes after death.”