“Atlantic puffins starve to death so that Danish chickens can feast on their fish.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 229 of 412
“What was broken will never be the same again.”
“Love is, after all, a curse of suffering.”
“Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.”
“to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world.”
“Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive a mortal blow. The perfect crime--for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found.”
“We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.”
“Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!”
“Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.”
“When I was younger and my parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I was running around screaming I was told to shut up.”
“I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.”
“How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.”
“Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.”
“Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along.”
“I have not only labored solely for the benefit of others (receiving for myself a miserable pittance), but have been forced to model my thoughts at the will of men whose imbecility was evident to all but themselves”
“Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!”
“Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.”
“Affliction is a good man's shining time.”
“[The Book of the Law]was lost for so many years. And then Josiah decided to celebrate Passover. The text says that "The Passover sacrifice had not been offered in that way ... during the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah" [2 Kings 23:22]. What do you mean? Not in the days of David and Solomon? Never before? And what of the days of the prophets? What happened? That's what I'm anguishing over. If the Book of the Law could be forgotten for so many years, who knows what was done to it during those years? Maybe it was lost later, too.”
“eventually, everything goes away.”