Melencolia Quotes & Sayings

You possess an intuitive intelligence so powerful it can
help you heal, relieve stress, and find emotional freedom — Judith Orloff

Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy. — Abhijit Naskar

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. — Theophile Gautier

We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought about by Christ's death and by our slow participation in it. Sentimentality is a skipping of this process in its concrete reality and an early arrival at a mock state of innocence, which strongly suggests its opposite. — Flannery O'Connor

Not long after graduation I was teaching at an alternative school and already I had serious doubts about my career choice. My students were hellions. I'd been assaulted twice. My car had been vandalized. I had to testify in court against one of my students, and afterward - and purely for spite - I delivered her textbook and homework assignments to the juvenile detention facility. Not my finest moment, but I enjoyed it. — Tucker Elliot

Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future. — Lajos Kossuth

No one gets through life scot-free. Shit happens. I's how you deal with it that shapes you, not the actual event itself. — Sarra Manning

But there are frogs deadlier than sharks — Brian McGreevy

All I wanted was sex. Just a little freaky sex, every now and then. When the fuck did it get so complicated?" he grumbled. — Stylo Fantome

Life doesn't retreat. — Dan Simmons

Katherine stopped abruptly and looked at Langdon. "Robert, Melencolia I is here in Washington. It hangs in the National Gallery."
"Yes," he said with a smile, "and something tells me that's not a coincidence. The gallery is closed at this hour, but I know the curator and - "
"Forget it, Robert, I know what happens when you go to museums." Katherine headed off into a nearby alcove, where she saw a desk with a computer.
Langdon followed, looking unhappy. — Dan Brown

Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination. — Parker J. Palmer

Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God. — Paulo Coelho

I use music in the operating room to help create a healing environment for patients and staff. There is a reason that certain heart rates are healthy and certain beats of music heal and relax us. — Bernie Siegel

When you get chemo, some people get a lot of sores in their mouth and even their esophagus, so they chew on ice; thank God that didn't happen with me. — Chuck Pagano