“The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 3 of 412
“The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.”
“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.”
“Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.”
“If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.”
“We walk the same path, but got on different shoes, live in the same building, but we got different views”
“Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.”
“Don't dismiss the heart, even if it's filled with sorrow. God's treasures are buried in broken hearts.”
“We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.”
“Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. some people are better at hiding it than others.”
“We are all here on this planet, as it were, as tourists. None of us can live here forever. The longest we might live is a hundred years. So while we are here we should try to have a good heart and to make something positive and useful of our lives. Whether we live just a few years or a whole century, it would be truly regrettable and sad if we were to spend that time aggravating the problems that afflict other people, animals, and the environment. The most important things is to be a good human being.”
“There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.”
“What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.”
“dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.”
“There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.”
“This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.”
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
“School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. Because of this, I wasn't worth anything, and several times they suggested I leave.”
“I don't like to lose-at anything... Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.”
“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”