“One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world - your little carved-out sphere - is twisting and morphing, even breaking apart.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 170 of 412
“He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.”
“My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.”
“So, when a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by turns; And 't is a poor relief we gain To change the place, but keep the pain.”
“With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.”
“If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.”
“Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream”
“Flower and thorn are in the same stem.”
“It is most unusual to return to a place that has changed in ways you yourself have altered.”
“Home is home even for those who aspire to serve wider interests and who have established their home of choice in distant regions.”
“For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.”
“Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.”
“Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.”
“At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones.”
“To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.”
“Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.”
“The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.”
“Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.”
“Everyone grows and changes. It's not even to say that you become a better person than you were, but you're morphing. This whole thing is just a weird river that we're on.”
“I feel like a human pinata. The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.”