“You develop a lot of scars, being interracial.”
Melancholic feeling
Melancholic Quotes — page 64 of 412
“The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.”
“Better be with the dead, Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.”
“What e'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.”
“Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.”
“Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.”
“Success and failure on the public level never mattered much to me, in fact I feel more at home with the latter, having breathed deep of its vivifying air all my writing life up to the last couple of years.”
“The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.”
“Despair is suffering without meaning.”
“When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task; his single and unique task. He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden.”
“Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.”
“Time meanwhile is flying, flying beyond recall.”
“Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.”
“The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.”
“What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.”
“If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.”
“History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes.”
“And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.”
“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”
“Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view. Sunday dinner isn't sunny. Easter feasts are just bad luck. When you see it from the viewpoint of a chicken or a duck. Oh how I once loved tuna salad Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too Till I stopped and looked at dinner From the dinner's point of view.”