“The process of illusion & disillusionment is part of life and goes on endlessly.”
Melancholic feeling
Melancholic Quotes — page 212 of 412
“Life has left her footprints on my forehead. But I have become a child again this morning. The smile, seen through leaves and flowers, is back to smooth away the wrinkles, as the rains wipe away footprints on the beach. Again a cycle of birth and death begins.”
“In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden and they abandon their values.”
“Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.”
“All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.”
“Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.”
“In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bear in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination.”
“And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity.”
“Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.”
“The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.”
“For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.”
“A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.”
“It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.”
“The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.”
“The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.”
“The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on the one hand he was a melancholic with a loathing for mankind, on the other, some paralysis had twisted his mouth into a permanent and radiant smile. So everyone he met, being warmed by his smile, would shout him a happy greeting. And beaming upon them with his sunny face he would curse them all to hell.”
“I ran very fast in the wrong direction.”
“Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!”
“La solitude re tablit aussi bien les harmonies du corps que celles de l'a" me. Solitude restores the harmonies of the body no less than those of the soul.”
“If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.”