“Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 56 of 412
“After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.”
“Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.”
“I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?”
“I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.”
“No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.”
“Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.”
“And when you're poor, you grow up fast.”
“I had to pay an incredible amount to get insured on it and, after a couple of weeks of driving it around, I realised it wasn't quite my style. I'm not flash by any means but a bright red Ferrari is a definite head-turner and I hated that. It was also incredibly impractical, particularly when it came to finding space for a friend or for my tennis bag, so I decided to sell it after a few months.”
“I never fall apart, because I never fall together.”
“I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!'”
“When I desire you a part of me is gone.”
“There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.”
“Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.”
“... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. Sympathy for the afflicted makes a reality of the affliction by its recognition as an infliction, while sorrow for the loss of anything, or for the »unfortunate« condition of anybody, is forgetful of the beauty and abundance of all-giving God and Nature. The Mind of God knows but one unchanging emotion - ECSTASY - the ecstasy of Love - the ecstasy which has its beginnings in an inner joyousness of one who is far on the road to the discovery of his immortal Self.”
“No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.”
“Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.”
“History is the same thing over and over again.”
“I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.”
“The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.”