“Nothing's ever the same," she said. "Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 211 of 412
“It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out onto a different scene, being, in our world, a mirror. Sometimes you will look into a mirror and feel the eyes of Despair upon you, feel her hook catch and snag on your heart.”
“Even nothing cannot last forever.”
“To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.”
“I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.”
“My father was a self-employed, commission-only salesman. He sold double-glazing and fitted kitchens, amongst other things. As he never declared himself unemployed, there was never recourse to benefits, so if money was tight, money was tight. It taught me that we were a closed unit, and that we had to be resourceful.”
“It's easy to get buried in the past when you try to make a good thing last.”
“Photography is the product of complete alienation.”
“There is no man ... however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man -- so far as it is possible for any of us to be wise -- unless he has passed through all the fatuous or unwholesome incarnations by which that ultimate stage must be preceded.”
“I think that when you have kids, it's all about them.”
“If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now.”
“I've been so used to thinking of what the borders are keeping out that I haven't considered that they're also penning us in.”
“Of all the miracles Po had seen in the time and space of its death, Po thought this--the absorption of another, the carrying of it--was the most bewildering and remarkable of all. Whenever Bundle separated again, Po was left with an ache of sadness that reminded the ghost of the body it had left behind.”
“I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.”
“With all the opportunities I had, I could have done more. And if I'd done more, I could have been quite remarkable.”
“Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own”
“Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.”
“I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.”
“Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away: our life's a dream.”
“For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.”