“The eyes of mortal men, threaten you with doom They regret to see you, set, but it is time, for the moon”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 73 of 412
“As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.”
“Old age is life's parody.”
“Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.”
“Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend.”
“I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It's not easier, it's more difficult.”
“Sometimes I nursed starfish alive in jam jars of seawater and watched them grow back lost arms. On this day, this awful birthday of otherness, my rival, somebody else, I flung the starfish against a stone. Let it perish.”
“I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.”
“So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.”
“It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.”
“At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.”
“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
“And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone”
“I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot.”
“Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful.”
“I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.”
“Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.”
“To stop suffering, stop greediness. Greediness is a source of suffering.”
“All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.”
“It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”