“But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 175 of 412
“But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.”
“I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.”
“But the same things that had once attracted menow left me with a mild sense of unease. Ivy would say I was getting smarter, but I just felt…empty.”
“The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.”
“There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.”
“All that time is lost which might be better employed.”
“The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.”
“It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem.”
“Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.”
“Most of the time I live with my pain. I have pain but I won't show it around. I think that's the nobility of the character. There's something noble in not spewing on people all the time about your problems. I'm the light guy, so I identified.”
“I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.”
“My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.”
“Innocence ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don’t know any better. That’s innocence”
“Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.”
“Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.”
“And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.”
“Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.”
“I am reconciled to my death, but I detest the mode.”
“I still find each day too short.”