“In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 48 of 412
“Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience”
“Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.”
“The most important thing is growing old gracefully.”
“As the years go on, you see changes in yourself, but you've got to face that - everyone goes through it... Either you have to face up to it and tell yourself you're not going to be eighteen all your life, or be prepared for a terrible shock when you see the wrinkles and white hair. Getting older doesn't frighten me, but I wish I didn't have to because I like life a lot.”
“I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.”
“So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet.”
“He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.”
“Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.”
“life is long between the desire and the spasm.”
“I miss her all the time. I know in my head that she has gone. the only difference is that I am getting used to the pain. It's like discovering a great hole in the ground. To begin with, you forget it's there and keep falling in. After a while, it's still there, but you learn to walk round it.”
“When my Mama asks me will I ever change, I tell her yeah... But it's clear I will always be the same until the end of time.”
“Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.”
“Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.”
“It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.”
“The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind.”
“In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through the goal net, and the poor goalkeeper in front of the net.”
“Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.”
“A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.”
“Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time.”