“Great passions are incurable diseases.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 222 of 412
“To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.”
“He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.”
“Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.”
“Age merely shows what children we remain.”
“Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht, Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.]”
“No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.”
“And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.”
“Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.”
“The poor old earth which has mothered us and nursed us we treat with scant respect. Our awe and veneration we reserve for the worlds we know not of. Our senses sell us out. The mud on our shoes disenchants us.”
“How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us - are arrested developments, calcified tendencies, buds of promise that should have lifted a branch up into the sunny day with fruit; and flowers to delight the heart of men, but now all grown hard, petrified, for want of culture and a congenial soil and climate.”
“It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.”
“I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.”
“Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.”
“Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.”
“Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That’s what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.”
“The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.”
“If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.”
“And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”
“I write about broken people who need other people in order to go on. But those are the only kind of people I know to exist. We are all broken.”