“As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 44 of 412
“Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.”
“Everybody knows that the boat is leaking. Everybody knows the captain lied. Everybody got this broken feeling, like their father or their dog just died. Everybody talking to their pockets. Everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long-stem rose. Everybody knows.”
“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”
“I'm kinda mad that I had to wait 28 years to jump on a skateboard.”
“I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty.”
“Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live.”
“It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.”
“A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.”
“Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.”
“The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.”
“But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.”
“Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived.”
“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was - but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.”
“We are punished by our sins, not for them.”
“Enough! we're tired, my heart and I. We sit beside the headstone thus, And wish that name were carved for us. The moss reprints more tenderly The hard types of the mason's knife, As Heaven's sweet life renews earth's life With which we're tired, my heart and I .... In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were loved, used, - well enough, I think, we've fared, my heart and I.”
“One need not be a chamber to be haunted.”
“Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there.”
“When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.”
“All in all I learned a lesson from it though. You never see it coming you just get to see it go.”