“Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 90 of 412
“Oh salty sea, how much of your salt Is tears from Portugal?”
“There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.”
“But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!”
“There is such a thing as anaesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne.”
“Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the nature of beginning and end. What if I searched for that which underlies all creation, that which is nirvana, the perfect freedom from unconditioned existence?”
“Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.”
“War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.”
“The way we do anything is the way we do everything. The way we eat is the way we live.”
“If you put everything, your heart and soul into a campaign, it might take you a while to come around to the realization that, you know, another person has won.”
“Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.”
“The mayfly lives only one day. And sometimes it rains.”
“In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.”
“Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.”
“Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.”
“Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.”
“It's different for every writer. It's not a career for anyone who needs security. It's a career for gamblers. It's a career of ups and downs.”
“A man on a hiking trip through the Blue Ridge Mountains came to the top of a hill and saw, just below the crest, a small log cabin. Its aged owner was sitting in front of the door, smoking a corncob pipe, and when the traveler drew close enough he asked the old man patronizingly: "Lived here all your life?" "Nope," the old mountaineer replied patiently. "Not yet."”
“The world is the mirror of myself dying.”
“Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.”