“To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.”
Melancholic feeling
Melancholic Quotes — page 87 of 412
“At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.”
“Since those don’t hit financial reports, the opportunities you had but didn’t accept, most people don’t bother thinking about them very much. At least that is a mistake we don’t make. We rub our own noses in our mistakes in blowing opportunities, as we just did.”
“She who is born with beauty is born with a sorrow for many a man.”
“Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.”
“People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.”
“I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.”
“Melancholy is kind of sweet sometimes, I think. It's not a negative thing. It's not a mean thing. It's just something that happens in life, like autumn.”
“The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.”
“The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.”
“Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.”
“I have come to know the mutability of all human relationships and have learned to insulate myself against both heat and cold so that a temperature balance is fairly well assured.”
“A burnt child dreads the fire.”
“McDonalds used to be my favorite place to eat, until my metabolism changed in my late 30s. Before that, I would have no hesitation about walking into McDonalds and getting two cheeseburgers and fries and enjoying every last bite.”
“I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.”
“I was the girl of the chain letter, the girl full of talk of coffins and keyholes, the one of the telephone bills, the wrinkled photo and the lost connections.”
“Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.”
“Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the asronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.”
“Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.”
“There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.”