“The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.”
Melancholic feeling
Melancholic Quotes — page 198 of 412
“There are things you can never take, no matter how strong you are.”
“I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.”
“I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.”
“Girls weren’t drug addicted, they were love addicted, and that, I’ll learn, is far harder to treat.”
“You look older.” “Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.”
“Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.”
“There is no end to the deceits of the past.”
“It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.”
“the longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to copy the whole dictation of existence to the end, for it might be that only the last sentence contains that small, perhaps inconspicuous word through which all laboriously learned and not understood orients itself toward glorious sense.”
“At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost.”
“And you suddenly know: It was here! You pull yourself together, and there stands an irrevocable year of anguish and vision and prayer.”
“Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.”
“If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.”
“One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'”
“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”
“A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.”
“It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.”
“You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.”
“The beginning of love is all about the butterflies, but the end of it is when you can't get out of bed in the morning.”