“Space we can recover; time never.”
Melancholic feeling
Melancholic Quotes — page 55 of 412
“My life is a vast inconsequential epic.”
“It was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not”
“Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. "Harpo my boy," he said, "I'm going to give you three pieces of advice, three things you should always remember." My heart jumped and I glowed with expectation. I was going to hear the magic password to a rich, full life from the master himself. "Yes sir?" I said. And he told me the three things. I regret that I've forgotten what they were.”
“All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.”
“Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable.”
“Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.”
“Now success was like lust, she's good to the touch, She's good for the moment, but she's never enough”
“Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.”
“When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. I fear the disease is incurable.”
“Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them.”
“But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago.”
“Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.”
“Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.”
“As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their oscillated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains.”
“The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.”
“Rain scatters plum petals; Weeping stains the earth. One can only take shelter And wait for clearing.”
“Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.”
“I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.”
“But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.”