“Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 17 of 412
“We come into the world alone and we die alone. Why, in life, should we be any less alone?”
“Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.”
“This fast life soon shatters, cause after all the lights and screams, nothing but my dreams matter.”
“The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.”
“We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to achieve a revolution. Time and time and time again, the people discover that they have merely betrayed themselves into the hands of yet another Pharaoh, who, since he was necessary to put the broken country together, will not let them go.”
“The stone is strong. Bran told himself, the roots of the trees go deep, and under the ground the Kings of Winter sit their thrones. So long as those remained, Winterfell remained. It was not dead, just broken. Like me, he thought. I'm not dead either.”
“The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.”
“Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”
“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”
“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”
“Old age is no place for sissies.”
“You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.”
“I am dying with the help of too many physicians.”
“We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by it. As a matter of fact, in the popular black imagination, it is easier for us to construct ourselves as children of Africa, as the sons and daughters of kings and queens, and thereby ignore the Middle Passage and centuries of enforced servitude in the Americas. Although some of us might indeed be the descendants of African royalty, most of us are probably descendants of their subjects, the daughters and sons of African peasants or workers.”
“Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.”
“Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud. All men make faults.”
“Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.”
“I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.”
“the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.”