“Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.”
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Melancholic Quotes — page 98 of 412
“I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.”
“Everything that comes together falls apart.”
“Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here.”
“I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.”
“Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.”
“This death to the logic of emotional commitments of our chance moment in the world of space and time, this recognition of, the shift of our emphasis to, the universal life that throbs and celebrates its victory in the very kiss of our own annihilation, this amor fati, 'love of fate,' love of the fate that is inevitably death, constitutes the experience of the tragic art.”
“I might have become a millionaire, but I chose to become a tramp.”
“Year's end still in straw hat and sandals”
“Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.”
“It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.”
“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.”
“I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.”
“If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clash of a full orchestra, a few to which nought but the refined and exquisite sadness of a violin could do justice. Many might be likened unto common pianos, jangling and out of tune, and some to the feeble piping of a penny whistle, and mine could be told with a couple of nails in a rusty tin-pot.”
“You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.”
“Long is the road from conception to completion.”
“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
“We develop our beautiful planet in such a way that we brush aside the species... we risk creating a wasteland, where our aspirations will ultimately wither and die”
“We don't grow older, we grow riper.”
“Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.”