“It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 215 of 412
“Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title. - Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room Television is chewing gum for the eyes.”
“I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing 'Sin City'. When I first got to New York I was swiftly informed that they only did guys in tights.”
“The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be shocked and unhappy when they behold the vigorous young builders of a new world sweeping away their time-honored antiquities.”
“Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.”
“Time is the rider that breaks youth.”
“Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.”
“That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.”
“Everyone has to suffer the gimmicks and other stunts and machinations when they're starting out - only at the time, it doesn't feel like suffering; it's fun and different then. But a little fame goes a long way, and then one tries to cast off part of the heavy burden - a burden one can never totally escape.”
“All things must pass, all things must pass away.”
“Nothing's forever forever's a lie. All we have is what's between hello and goodbye.”
“Being a movie star was never as much fun as dreaming of being one.”
“Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.”
“Every heart has its own skeletons.”
“Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.”
“The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.”
“Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into rulers, controllers, manipulators.”
“The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.”
“We were king’s men, knights, and heroes . . . but some knights are dark and full of terror, my lady. War makes monsters of us all.” “Are you saying you are monsters?” “I am saying we are human. You are not the only one with wounds, Lady Brienne”
“He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.”