“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 57 of 412
“There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.”
“The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.”
“Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.”
“Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.”
“You learn to accept your own reality”
“Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that's the end of you.”
“In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.”
“It is night, And it is vanity, and age Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear, The yellow chirper, beaks its cage.”
“Too many among us are afraid to be ourselves. So we give up our dreams to follow the crowd.”
“Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts”
“I do occasionally wonder, if you were to bring to life one of those young men who sacrificed themselves in what was advertised to them as the Great War, and the war to end all war, and show them that we're still engaged in armed conflict in the same area, I'm not sure that they would be pleased about what their sacrifices amounted to.”
“I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.”
“There’s nothing left of me. I’m like a ruby held up to the sunrise. Is it still a stone, or a world made of redness? It has no resistance to sunlight.”
“I say there are spots that don't come off.... Spots that never come off, d'you know what I mean?”
“Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.”
“Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.”
“Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.”
“Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.”
“If you sleep, Desire grows in you Like a vine in the forest. Like a monkey in the forest You jump from tree to tree, Never finding the fruit - From life to life, Never finding peace. If you are filled with desire Your sorrows swell Like the grass after the rain. But if you subdue desire Your sorrows shall fall from you Like drops of water from a lotus flower.”