“I am glad that I do not have any children.”
Melancholic feeling
Melancholic Quotes — page 60 of 412
“He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.”
“The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry wood, and her children gazing on; The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the fence, blowing and covered with sweat, The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, The murderous buckshot and the bullets, All these I feel or am.”
“Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.”
“Having nothing, nothing can he lose.”
“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee.”
“I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not the soldier's which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these: but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadness.”
“I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.”
“I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not do well in examinations”
“Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. Old age is similarly a waiting room, where you go after life's over and wait for cancer or a stroke. The years before and after the menstrual years are vestigial: the only meaningful condition left to women is that of fruitfulness.”
“Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.”
“We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.”
“The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.”
“The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.”
“It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*”
“By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.”
“There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.”
“It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.”
“The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.”
“Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.”