“A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 181 of 412
“To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.”
“…Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed.”
“A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.”
“A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.”
“My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.”
“And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”
“The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed.”
“And I fell violently on my face.”
“Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in.”
“Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.”
“Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.”
“After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more.”
“I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the world. Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.”
“Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.”
“We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth.”
“I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me.”
“Once Henry had heard a crying noise at sea, and had seen a mermaid floating on the ocean's surface. The mermaid had been injured by a shark. Henry had pulled the mermaid out of the water with a rope, and she had died in his arms..."what language did the mermaid speak?" Alma wanted to know, imagining that it like almost have to be Greek. "English!" Henry said. "By God, plum, why would I rescue a deuced foreign mermaid?”
“You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self.”
“We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.”