“Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 36 of 412
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.”
“All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.”
“Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.”
“It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.”
“Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.”
“We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.”
“Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.”
“It could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars”
“No greater tragedy exists in modern civilization than the aged, worn-out worker who after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity must look forward for his declining years to a poorhouse. A modern social consciousness demands a more humane and efficient arrangement.”
“One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.”
“Had a lot of moments that didn't last forever, now you're in the corner tryin' to put it together - how to love.”
“The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.”
“Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.”
“From 1936 on, I have taken more falls than any other 20 comedians put together. From the time I was 21, I've taken them on everything from clay courts to cement to wood floors, coming off pianos, going out a two-story window, landing on Dean, falling into the rough. You do that and you're gonna have problems.”
“As long as we define ourselves in terms of our pain and our problems, we will never be free from them.”
“I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.”
“The past is a pebble in my shoe.”
“I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.”
“But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.”