“I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 201 of 412
“Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.”
“Yes, yes, I'm coming. Right up the top of the house. One moment I'll linger. How the mud goes round in the mind-what a swirl these monsters leave, the waters rocking, the weeds waving and green here, black there, striking to the sand, till by degrees the atoms reassemble, the deposit sifts itself, and a gain through the eyes one sees clear and still, and there comes to the lips some prayer for the departed, some obsequy for the souls of those one nods to, the one never meets again.”
“Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?”
“The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.”
“There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.”
“Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.”
“Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely? All this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely?”
“In every species of fish I've angled for, it is the ones that have got away that thrill me the most, the ones that keep fresh in my memory. So I say it is good to lose fish. If we didn't, much of the thrill of angling would be gone.”
“If I was ever a rare fine summer person, that's long ago. Most of us are half-and-half. The August noon in us works to stave off the November chills. We survive by what little Fourth of July wits we've stashed away. But there are times when we're all autumn people.”
“Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.”
“The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.”
“If I could change my appearance, I would have the gap between my front teeth put back in.”
“Very often, if you think about what's erotic and break it down, as we're feeling the excitement of eroticism, we're feeling fear. We want to try to dominate our fear and get rid of our fear, so we go towards it and have sex with it, basically. That's really sad.”
“Though like the wanderer, The sun gone down, Darkness be over me, My rest a stone; Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer, my God, to Thee.”
“There is no effort without error or shortcoming.”
“There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value. Conservation means development as much as it does protection.”
“Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.”
“Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.”
“For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.”