“As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 91 of 412
“The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.”
“As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.”
“America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul.”
“One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.”
“They say the world used to be bigger. The world's still the same--there's just less in it.”
“Life is what comes along after you have planned something else.”
“Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too–maybe even yours.”
“Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.”
“As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little Match Girl'in the Hans Christian Andersen story. When I was in the boarding nursery and did not want to finish my food, the teacher would say:'Think of all the starving children in the capitalist world!”
“This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days,the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness. Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but they are also its warning.”
“[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.”
“All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.”
“The thing that you have to fight the most when you lose is you feel like the biggest failure in the world.”
“I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.”
“Everyone in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter. He's the only one that's on Skid Row most of the time; he's the only one that everybody just leaves when he loses his mind. He sometimes goes insane, he sometimes goes on the bottle, because it's an intensive pressure sport that allows people to just lose it.”
“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
“It's a small world. When you put it in a cemetery, it is.”
“Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.”
“I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it.”