“You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more faces, more expressions: on every new face you encounter, it prints the old forms, for each one it finds the most suitable mask.”
Melancholic feeling
Melancholic Quotes — page 213 of 412
“[Gilda Radner] was in the in vitro fertilization program, and it nearly, nearly drove us apart, too. She wanted that baby, so badly, and it didn't work. Oddly enough, when we were doing "Haunted Honeymoon" in London, she did become pregnant for about 10 days, but then she lost it. But, anyway, my odyssey with Gilda was wonderful, funny, torturous, painful and sad. It was - it went the full gamut.”
“You must know the story of how the race of ancient days reached the stars, and how they bargained away all the wild half of themselves to do so, so that they no longer cared for the taste of the pale wind, no for love or lust, nor to make new songs nor to sing old ones, nor for any of the other animal things they believed they had brought with them out of the rain forests al the bottom of time--though in fact, so my uncle told me, those things brought them”
“In my 30s I used to go to the gym even though I hated it. The purpose of going to the gym was to postpone the day when I would stop going. That's what writing is to me: a way of postponing the day when I won't do it any more, the day when I will sink into a depression so profound it will be indistinguishable from perfect bliss.”
“In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.”
“But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis.”
“It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.”
“Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious.”
“Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.”
“Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.”
“The melancholiness of the ocean; the melancholiness of everything else.”
“When you live your whole life in a prison freedom can be so dull”
“Like flowers scattered in a storm, a man's life is a long farewell.”
“As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later.”
“One listless day followed another, with nothing to distinguish one from the next. You could have changed the order and no one would have noticed.”
“Each day the sun would rise and set, the flag would be raised and lowered. Each Sunday I would have a date with my dead friend’s girl. I had no idea what I was doing or what I was going to do.”
“What you mean by 'peace' is nothing more than the endless repetition of human folly.”
“It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.”
“Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.”
“The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.”