“You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 63 of 412
“I once went a whole summer without seeing the sun. I would play all night, then sleep all day.”
“Pictures pass me in long review,-- Marching columns of dead events. I was tender, and, often, true; Ever a prey to coincidence. Always knew I the consequence; Always saw what the end would be. We're as Nature has made us -- hence I loved them until they loved me.”
“Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.”
“I've been a dweller on the plains, have sighed when summer days were gone; No more I'll sigh; for winter here Hath gladsome gardens of his own.”
“Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.”
“She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.”
“The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.”
“In 1975,Bob Dylan was almost 10 years past his prime - and then he released the best album of his career, Blood on the Tracks. Written and recorded amid a painful divorce, Blood on the Tracks is proof that heartbreak makes great art - just as many of the albums that followed were the opposite.”
“Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.”
“Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.”
“It's good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you're confused, that you're in a lie.”
“If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me to attend to the here and now. If, then , my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.”
“Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected.”
“In music I feel most deeply the passing of things.”
“Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.”
“I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.”
“The past does not haunt us. We haunt the past. We allow our minds to focus in that direction. We open memories and examine them. We reexperience emotions we felt during the painful events we experienced because we are recalling them in as much detail as we can.”
“Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.”
“What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.”