“Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 32 of 412
“The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred”
“The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.”
“A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.”
“Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.”
“Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing - too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance gradually wastes a life. It ensures that a person's capacities stay dormant, that talents remain undeveloped, that the mind and spirit become lethargic and that the heart remains unfulfilled.”
“Weight loss does not make people happy. Or peaceful. Being thin does not address the emptiness that has no shape or weight or name. Even a wildly successful diet is a colossal failure because inside the new body is the same sinking heart.”
“Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its work that you never realize it has stolen your youth until you look into the mirror one morning and see a man you don't recognize.”
“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
“We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of samsara - the cycle of suffering that comes from continuing to seek happiness in all the wrong places.”
“We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.”
“I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me in full view of everyone. I long to wallow in the mud. I can scarcely control my need for self-abasement, my craving for licentiousness and debauchery. Sin tempts me, forbidden pleasures lure me. I want to be both pig and hen, then kill them and drink their blood.”
“There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.”
“I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.”
“A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.”
“Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain.”
“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.”
“The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.”
“I've been outta my mind a long time.”
“The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.”