“When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 84 of 412
“I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.”
“If it's true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my life from a dead man; and the misdeeds of those times have been forgiven, and are buried with his bones.”
“I used to walk like a giant on the land. Now I feel like a leaf floating in a stream”
“The only paradise is paradise lost.”
“Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation.”
“Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.”
“This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts bring with it consequences; so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it. . . .”
“One always imagines that the days that change one’s life must be marked with something extraordinary in nature—storms and lightning, darkness at noon, and so on. In truth they are indistinguishable from any other, which is one reason we feel mocked, as if the world is telling us we are inconsequential.”
“So I can say I used to have a waist.”
“When it's all over, it'll seem like a dream.”
“In a certain state of mind, all trace of feeling is banished. Whenever I remain silent in a certain way, I don't love you, have you noticed that?”
“Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.”
“My travels have always been of the same kind. No matter where I've gone or why I've gone there it ends up that I never see anything. Becoming a movie star is living on a merry-go-round. When you travel you take the merry-go-round with you. You don't see natives or new scenery. You see chiefly the same press agents, the same sort of interviewers, and the same picture layouts of yourself.”
“Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through.”
“That was the way of this cold world, where men fished the sea and dug in the ground and died, whilst women brought forth short-lived children from beds of blood and pain.”
“Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.”
“I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.”
“It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.”
“Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.”