“I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.”
Melancholic feeling
Melancholic Quotes — page 45 of 412
“there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even during the best moments and the greatest times times we will know it we will know it more than ever there is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space.”
“Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.”
“It's cute how I used to think this 'barely holding it together' feeling was temporary.”
“What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.”
“Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.”
“If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play”
“One of the few things that can't be recycled is wasted time.”
“Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”
“The past lies like a nightmare upon the present.”
“My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in some spurious vegetable torpor, moss growing on the surface of life. Without a trace of bitterness I savour my absurd awareness of being nothing, a mere foretaste of death and extinction.”
“The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.”
“I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.”
“All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.”
“He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.”
“We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.”
“I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.”
“Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.”
“History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.”
“There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.”