“The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 77 of 412
“He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.”
“Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.”
“Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.”
“This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.”
“Habit is a great deadener.”
“As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.”
“I was so dorky up until I was about 14 or 15 and started to get a little bit cooler, but I was a socks and sandals girl. I would wear big frilly socks with sandals and all the kids would tease me.”
“Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.”
“If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.”
“At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.”
“Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.”
“All sins are attempts to fill voids.”
“Despair often breeds disease.”
“Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone; peace to our children when they fall in small war on the heel of small war--until the end of time to police the earth, a ghost orbiting forever lost in our monotonous sublime”
“True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.”
“When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.”
“I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.”
“Tomorrow is another day toward death.”
“That which could hunger, could starve.”