“Do you remember when Marilyn Monroe died? Everybody stopped work, and you could see all that day the same expressions on their faces, the same thought: ‘How can a girl with success, fame, youth, money, beauty . . . how could she kill herself?’ Nobody could understand it because those are the things that everybody wants, and they can’t believe that life wasn’t important to Marilyn Monroe, or that her life was elsewhere”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 30 of 412
“To be alive at all is to have scars.”
“Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.”
“The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.”
“For some people there is no comfort without pain. Thus; we define salvation through suffering. Hence, why we choose people who we know aren't right for ourselves.”
“They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet.”
“Gonna be a twister to blow everything down That ain't got the faith to stand its ground Blow away the dreams that tear you apart Blow away the dreams that break your heart Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted.”
“It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing.”
“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”
“Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.”
“He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.”
“What fire does not destroy, it hardens”
“Life is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show.”
“One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.”
“We were the chosen rejects. We chose not to be apart of the popular crowd. I mean, I can rember a lot of times the more popular people, the 'jock type' of people who were into sports, and staying clean, and brushing there teeth all the time, they always asked me if I wanted to join their little club, and i decided not to, you know, I would rather hang out with the people who didn't get picked for the baseball team, you know, who smoke cigarettes and listen to rock 'n' roll music.”
“I got lost in the night, without the light of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me I was born again: I was the owner of my own darkness.”
“Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced.”
“For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to own her like a plot of land. To work her, plow her under, rain down a dreadful poison upon her. Miraculously, it causes these girls to grow. They elongate on the pale slender stalks of their longing, like sunflowers with heavy heads. You can shield them with your body and soul, trying to absorb that awful rain, but they'll still move toward him. Without cease they'll bend to his light.”
“I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream.”
“Too much FANTASY loses REALITY, too much HOPE may seem somehow EMPTY.”