“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 37 of 412
“We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.”
“Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.”
“I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.”
“In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.”
“Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.”
“Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.”
“Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.”
“The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.”
“Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a nightmare tunnel where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown.”
“I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.”
“A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel.”
“We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we're all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us.”
“Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward.”
“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there even though we go away and there are things in us we can find again only by going back there. We travel to ourselves when we go to a place. We have covered a stretch of our life no matter how brief it may have been but by traveling to ourselves we must confront our own loneliness. And isn’t it so that everything we do is done out of fear of our loneliness? Isn’t that why we renounce all the things we will regret at the end of our life?”
“Life doesn't last, art doesn't last”
“The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.”
“I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.”
“The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.”