“It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 59 of 412
“Every Warrior of the Light has, at some time in the past, lied or betrayed someone.”
“I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.”
“Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.”
“The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.”
“Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.”
“Step by step, heart to heart, left right left. We all fall down like toy soldiers. Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win.”
“I was a smart kid, but I hated school.”
“It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you.”
“I've always known that sporting people frequently suffer from joint problems because of the repeated strain they put on their bodies to get to the top. But somehow I never thought it would happen to me.”
“By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.”
“Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don't hold on to that.”
“My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.”
“We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting”
“An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long as you keep that in mind, you are never really disappointed.”
“You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.”
“The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.”
“A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.”
“Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress.”
“The dusk runs down the lane driven like hail; Far off a precise whistle is escheat To the dark; and then the towering weak and pale.”