“We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 221 of 412
“One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.”
“Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident”
“The universe remains dark. We are animals struck by catastrophe.”
“L'homme est une passion inutile. Man is a useless passion.”
“I have been stabbed, shot, burned, bitten, beaten unconscious too many times to count, and even staked. None of those held a candle to the pain I felt at seeing his mouth on hers.”
“I was in a very deep state of shock after that. I had raised my horse since he was six months old and he was more like a child to me, so I took it very hard. They never caught who did it and the stable did a great job of covering facts up so it couldn't be proved that it was the direct result of the article, but the coincidence was striking.”
“I've been burn when it comes to my hair that it ain't no joke.”
“It is the psychic depression of decadence which has come to this place and time. It is what happens to people who ignore their artists and deny their children. It is a terminal case of involutional melancholia which comes from within and cannot be cured by T.V. or psychotherapy or anything but a creative life, which is hard to come by in a country where it doesn't pay to do anything for yourself.”
“I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.”
“How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn't get exposed to.”
“Well I thought my pickin' would set them on fire, but nobody wanted to hire a guitar man.”
“Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.”
“I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.”
“And as a true athlete, mistakes haunt you forever.”
“Room Full Of Mirrors, that's more of a mental disarrangement. This says something about broken glass used to be all in my brain.”
“What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want to see it. But in terms of people even understanding in common usage, some of the words we use to describe these movies, I don't know how long that's going to last.”
“What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive.”
“We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.”
“The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough; and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?”