“The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.”
Melancholic feeling
Melancholic Quotes — page 208 of 412
“Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.”
“Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?”
“Every time I close my eyes, it's like a dark paradise. No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight”
“When you long you can not achieve anything when you repeatedly have to lose all that you had hoped, you gradually become still.”
“He who is attached to things will suffer much.”
“The reason for great distress is the body. Without it, what distress could there be?”
“I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.”
“To whatever end. Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains. Like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the west. Behind the hills, into shadow. How did it come to this?”
“It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and they fail of their promise.”
“Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.”
“She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered. But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over.”
“All pain is the same.”
“I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.”
“Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.”
“I drag my myth around with me.”
“The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.”
“I never played with anything like toys. I wanted to be grown-up.”
“The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.”
“I was a big fan of Gary Moore, he was my buddy and I miss him a lot. I loved his playing because you've got that passion; it was sort of a Celtic thing. The Irish and Scots they just go for it and not too worried about looking good. When I was in the states touring, I landed in Seattle to do a gig and one of the fans came to me and told me about Gary's death. It was very hard for me to carry on, it was awful.”