“A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.”
Melancholic feeling
Melancholic Quotes — page 185 of 412
“Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.”
“If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?”
“Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.”
“Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.”
“For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.”
“Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.”
“Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it from its profound homeland and the look that it casts upon the outer world is gently dismayed.”
“Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.”
“I was always either so unreasonably and pointlessly happy that no one place could seem to contain me, or so melancholy, so sick and silly with sadness that there was no place I could stomach the thought of entering. I hated it here. And I have never been as happy as when I was here. And these two things together confront me with the beak and claws of the True.”
“The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.”
“Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.”
“You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.”
“This and the small sample size inevitably leads to stereotypes - sweeping family sagas from India, 'lush' colonial romances from South-East Asia. Mother and daughter reconciling generational differences through preparing a 'traditional' meal together. Geishas. And even if something more exciting does manage to sneak through, it gets the same insultingly clichéd cover slapped on it anyway, so no one will ever know.”
“I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.”
“The beginning of suffering is often a refusal to look at the situation as it really is.”
“The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.”
“As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.”
“Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings. And why not? Because we are practically the ultimate paradox: the finite made for the infinite.”
“Consider what we sometimes do with our children: We imbue them with this sense, very early on, that they have got to succeed. We are not content that they just do well, they have got to wipe the floor with the opposition.”