“Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 49 of 412
“A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.”
“To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.”
“Is to have had and lost/Better than not having at all?”
“What a long strange trip it's been.”
“There are people we meet in life who miss being important to us by inches, days, or heartbeats. Another place or time or a different emotional frame of mind and we would willingly fall into their arms; gladly take up their challenge or invitation. But as it is, we encounter them when we are discontent or content and they are not. Whatever they are, we are not and vice versa. Two trains going in different directions that pass for a few powerful moments at full speed, blasting noise and wind but then they are gone. Whatever serious chemistry might have been possible if, isn’t.”
“there are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls”
“I am not now That which I have been.”
“When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And as Chögyam Trungpa used to tell us, that’s cause for celebration.”
“To accomplish nothing and die of the strain”
“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
“Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.”
“I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents and more distant ancestors. It often seems as if there were an impersonal karma within a family which is passed on from parents to children. It has always seemed to me that I had to answer questions which fate had posed to my forefathers, and which had not yet been answered, or as if I had to complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous ages had left unfinished.”
“Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.”
“The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.”
“In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.”
“The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart; he never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky!”
“One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such a one may seem happy, may seem a saint, his single track mind may impress the multitude with its power - but he is ill equipped for life's true adventure into the infinite.”
“To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.”
“People say you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone, but the truth is you just never thought you’d ever lose it.”