“Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 75 of 412
“All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was born into and it's my duty. . . . Wanting is not the right word. But those stories about me not wanting to be king are all wrong.”
“In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.”
“When you feel like you've had it up to here, and you're mad enough to scream, but you're sad enough to tear, that's rock bottom.”
“Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.”
“I'm not into social media. I'm like from another century.”
“She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.”
“Relationships are treated like Dixie cups. They are the same. They are disposable. If it does not work, drop it, throw it away, get another. Committed bonds (including marriage) cannot last when this is the prevailing logic. Most of us are unclear about what to do to protect and strengthen caring bonds when our self-centered needs are not being met.”
“Being with him was like being alone underwater - everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel dry and cold when I resurfaced.”
“My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.”
“Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got the kind of grades I did. I failed everything. I was too busy fighting and running wild.”
“In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.”
“Sick of being a prisoner of my childhood, I want to put it behind me.”
“One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence.”
“Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail.”
“There really is no time for wallowing in the miseries of life: we don’t have all the time in the world, we have all the world, and not enough time.”
“The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin”
“It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn’t held it tighter when you had it every day.”
“Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.”
“Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss”