“You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses.”
Melancholic feeling
Melancholic Quotes — page 230 of 412
“Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.”
“Marianne Dashwood looks at gray skies and sees blue. That's all very well, and it's not something you ever want entirely to lose. But you must lose a little of it; otherwise you're going to get wet.”
“I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be”
“The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.”
“Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations, who drifted on a languid tide of curiosity... Somewhere behind them, in the background of their lives there was doubtless a real past, yet they had no more real existence than the poet's shades in limbo.”
“..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.”
“I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.”
“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.”
“People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.”
“I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.”
“When you have everything, you have everything to lose.”
“Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can't explain But I faithfully remain.”
“I do not see them here; but after death God knows I know the faces I shall see, Each one a murdered self, with low last breath. 'I am thyself,what hast thou done to me?' 'And Iand Ithyself,' (lo! each one saith,) 'And thou thyself to all eternity!”
“Still we say as we go,-"Strange to think by the wayWhatever there is to know,That shall we know one day.”
“Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act.”
“We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.”
“Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.”
“Be content with what nature made you, or run the risk of earning contempt by trying to be what you're not.”
“For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?”