“Possessions are usually diminished by possession.”
Melancholic feeling
Melancholic Quotes — page 220 of 412
“...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.”
“And you're sorry that the ephemeral beauty has faded so rapidly, so irretrievably, that it flashed so deceptively and pointlessly before your eyes - you're sorry, for you didn't even have time to fall in love.”
“Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.”
“All good things in life are fragile and easily lost”
“Pity it is we drowse too soon Pity it is we fall asleep Ere our song encompass the height Ere our hand inherit the deep”
“Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again.”
“I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest.”
“If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.”
“There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.”
“That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day of it, too-was to start a patent office; for I knew that a country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways.”
“It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.”
“All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.”
“I have been photographed to death.”
“It took me a while to warm to the '20s costumes on 'Downton.' I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, 'We're equal to men!'”
“That’s my girl,” she said, her eyes holding a shared pain as she saw my confusion. “Al, where are you going to put her? Not in your room. She’d pull a line through you and kill you when you hog the blankets. I’ll take the waif in. I promise I’ll bring this one up properly.”
“Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood”
“I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.”
“The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?”
“The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition.”