“Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.”
Melancholic feeling
Melancholic Quotes — page 8 of 412
“The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much.”
“Only through suffering can we find ourselves.”
“A man's eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past”
“I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.”
“It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
“Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.”
“There's no such thing as losing touch. You can take me out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of me.”
“I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.”
“The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours.”
“When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].”
“It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.”
“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.”
“Wasting away again in Margaritaville, searching for my lost shaker of salt.”
“In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”
“Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.”
“The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.”
“It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.”
“Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.”