“To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 233 of 412
“They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.”
“Life's too short for a funeral.”
“It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.”
“Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach, Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow. Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, Let me forget about today until tomorrow.”
“Every day your memory grows dimmer - it doesn't haunt me like it did before.”
“I used to think it's better if you just live and die and no one knows who you are.”
“Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.”
“Having hits buries a singer in the past. A lot of singers hide in the past because it's safer back there. If you've ever heard today's country music, you'll know what I'm talking about.”
“A rain will fall, but the dirt it tough A pot a cook but the food nah nuff.”
“We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.”
“People have been rumouring that Queen are going to split up for the last eight years at least. I've got some great cuttings at home from people saying 'One thing is certain, Queen will no longer exist in a year's time.' And that was in 1973.”
“To my mind Keep Yourself Alive was never really satisfactory. Never had that magic that it should have had.”
“I have a list of universal beliefs, and they are amazing beliefs, like, "No one cares" or "You don't care about me"; "I should be successful" or "I'm not successful"; "I don't have enough money"; "I'm too tall or thin or fat"; "I shouldn't have done it" - oh, my goodness, they go on and on and on.”
“I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.”
“I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question. I live with such frenzied intensity. Things and people are waiting for me, and doubtless I am waiting for them and desiring them with all my strength and sadness. But, here, I earn the right to be alive by silence and by secrecy. The miracle of not having to talk about oneself.”
“It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.”
“Don't second guess the mistakes you've made, others will do that for you. Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
“One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good”
“Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness.”