“It's about moments in life that are great but don't last. They don't go on, but you always have the memory and they have an effect on you. That's what I was thinking about.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 35 of 412
“One does not become fully human painlessly.”
“A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”
“I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
“The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage - it’s okay for clothes not that great for people”
“If you could avoid all your mistakes, you'd miss everything you learned from them.”
“breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.”
“Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.”
“There is no beauty, if it doesn't show some of the terribleness of life.”
“If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
“Something invisible snapped inside her.”
“Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!”
“The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.”
“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.”
“Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.”
“Life... by Marshall Mathers... What is life ? Life is like a big obstacle put in front of your optical to slow you down... And everytime you think you gotten past it It's gonna come back around and tackle you to the damn ground”
“A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.”
“The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day after day, first from carelessness, then from inclination, at last from cowardice or inertia. Luckily the inconsequent life is not the only alternative; for caprice is as ruinous as routine. Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.”
“There would be no call for ecological campaigning had nature not been exploited and abused. We experience the ground now bringing forth thistles as soil erosion devastates formerly arable land and deserts overtake fertile farms. Rivers and the atmosphere are polluted thoughtlessly and we are fearful of the consequences of a depleted ozone layer and the devastation of the greenhouse effect. We are not quite at home in our world, and somewhere in each of us there is a nostalgia for a paradise that has been lost.”
“And though you want to last forever, You know you never will, You know you never will, And the good-bye makes the journey harder still.”