“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 21 of 412
“I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person.”
“It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”
“The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.”
“one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.”
“By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.”
“Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.”
“I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and who inhabit the earth for a while to console and lift up with them toward heaven the poor, exhausted and saddened souls who were ready to perish here below.”
“Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.”
“One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old”
“My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.”
“The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.”
“Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree's summit.”
“I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.”
“He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.”
“All the things I used to like - cookies, ice cream, gumbo - I don't like anymore.”
“Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”
“Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one?”
“Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.”
“It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.”