“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 5 of 412
“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
“This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear.”
“When the thinking of a people becomes corrupt, the pure silver becomes impure in its hands.”
“Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn't see the young people wearing braids or chokers or ribbon shirts in those days. Hell, I didn't wear 'em. People didn't Sun Dance, they didn't Sweat, they were losing their languages. Then there was that spark at Alcatraz, and we took off. Man, we took a ride across this country. We put Indians and Indian rights smack dab in the middle of the public consciousness for the first time since the so-called Indian wars.”
“I'm always chasing rainbows, Waiting to find a little bluebird in vain.”
“I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.”
“No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.”
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”
“Getting old is not for sissies.”
“American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.”
“The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.”
“April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.”
“As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I'm successful, I never feel like I'm anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I'm never content.”
“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.”
“The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.”
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”
“I admire the good samaritan, but I don't want to be one.I don't want to spend my life picking up people by the side of the road after they have been beaten up and robbed.I want to change the Jericho road, so that everybody has an opportunity for a job, education, security, health.”
“I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.”