“There comes a time as an artist, can't follow the crowd. You have to do YOU, and make the crowd follow you.”
Melancholic feeling
Melancholic Quotes — page 31 of 412
“I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then”
“What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.”
“She burned too bright for this world.”
“As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases.”
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
“Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.”
“What is an adult? A child blown up by age.”
“A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.”
“We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.”
“Pain is certain, suffering is optional.”
“Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.”
“Long is the night for the sleepless. Long is the road for the weary. Long is samsara (the cycle of continued rebirth) for the foolish, who have not recognised the true teaching.”
“Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened.”
“One of the first sights that shocked me, when I came to Israel in 1921, was an Arab turning over a field with a very primitive plow; pulling the plow were an ox and a woman. Now, if it means that we have destroyed this romantic picture by bringing in tractors, combines, and threshing machines, this is true: we have.”
“To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.”
“The nearer the dawn the darker the night.”
“Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.”
“The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.”
“Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting”