“The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 171 of 412
“At the time, I didn't know why, but I know now that when I was a little boy, I was scared to death of the Frankenstein films ... and in all these years later, I wanted it to come out with a happy ending, and I think it was my fear of the Frankenstein movies when I was 8 and 9 and 10 years old that made me want to write that story [Young Frankenstein].”
“For every diet there's an equal and opposite binge (bulimia which is binging and purging is another way of depriving yourself).”
“I have been treated as a freak, rather like the fat lady at the circus.”
“I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life.”
“My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?'”
“Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.”
“The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.”
“As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.”
“We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died longe ago.Even so, a faint glimmer of that warm memory still claimed a part of my heart. And when death claim me, no doubt I would walk along by that faint light in the brief instant before being flung once again into the abyss of nothingness”
“Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly into the mist. And all that remains is a desert.”
“With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.”
“We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few cherish that flame, nurture it, hold it as a torch to light their way. But once that flame goes out, it’s gone forever.”
“Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.”
“We easily forget crimes that are known to none but ourselves.”
“Nothing is rarer than real goodness.”
“Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]”
“A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of it's complete egoism. I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remorse, but never sorrow. Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else.”
“We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known.”
“It has been my face. It's got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise have done. It's scored with deep, dry wrinkles, the skin is cracked. But my face hasn't collapsed, as some with fine feature have done. It's kept the same contours, but its substance has been laid waste. I have a face laid waste.”