The soulless have no need of melancholia
Vladimir Odoyevsky
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The melancholia of everything completed!
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Vladimir: That passed the time.
Estragon: It would have passed in any case.
Vladimir: Yes, but...
SAMUEL BECKETT the history of melancholia
includes all of us.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI VLADIMIR: What do they say?
ESTRAGON: They talk about their lives.
VLADIMIR: To have lived...
SAMUEL BECKETT Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless.
LAINI TAYLOR The immediate return of ambassador Vladimir Villegas has been ordered,
ALI RODRIGUEZ …products of soulless machines and relentless globalization…
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Whoever had decided that school should start so early in the morning and last all day long needed to...
HEATHER BREWER No other photographer had such immediate and intimate access to Nabokov over so many years, ... Vlad...
BRIAN BOYD There is a sort of melancholia which I find quite elegant after the 'bimbo years'.
KARL LAGERFELD To be modern is to tear the soul out of every thing
YOHJI YAMAMOTO A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.
MAY SARTON A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless
MAY SARTON A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
MAY SARTON In the end the soul is itself the longing of the soulless for salvation.
THEODOR W. ADORNO Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do,...
SAMUEL BECKETT Wanted, wanted: Dolores Haze.
Hair: brown. Lips: scarlet.
Age: five thousand three hundred...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Los Angeles is a bleached-out, soulless pit.
ROBERT SEAN LEONARD Vladimir Putin is leading a dying country. Vladimir Putin's regime exports three things: petrole...
OLIVER NORTH Vladimir leaned forward. “Never dilute vodka. Is sin.
JENNIFER LANE I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I ge...
DAVID O. SELZNICK Having riches ultimately means having few needs.
J.R. RIM I love the Russians for their verve, their melancholia, their vivacity, their unpredictability, and ...
MIRANDA OTTO You are a soulless monster whose fright mask is incapable of capturing human expressions.
COLSON WHITEHEAD When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
PATRICIA KAAS For me, one of the downfalls of electronic music is that it can feel a little soulless or robotic.
FLUME Vladimir: Did I ever leave you?
Estragon: You let me go.
SAMUEL BECKETT If you want to breed something, breed bravehearts, not soulless racehorses.
ABHIJIT NASKAR Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.
ERIC S. RAYMOND I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I...
OSAMU DAZAI We can postulate that there must be diseases founded on a conflict between ego and super-ego. Analys...
SIGMUND FREUD We [of Thelema] are whole-hearted extroverts; the penalty of restricting oneself is anything ...
ALEISTER CROWLEY Alexia figured, delightedly, that this meant he did, in fact, tend to traipse around his private apa...
GAIL CARRIGER My dearest girl,' said the vampire finally, examining Lord Maccon with an exhausted but appre...
GAIL CARRIGER Vladimir Putin uses energy to hold our allies hostage. If energy is going to be used as a weapon, I ...
RICK PERRY Im a soulless lawyer. Give me any opinion and I can argue it.
MEGYN KELLY CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything.
EVAN DANDO Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and a...
RAND PAUL There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
I say NO to the demands of...
JONATHAN LOCKWOOD HUIE It's not so bad."
Melancholia looked at her. "You're lying."
"I'll get used to it. So will...
DEREK LANDY Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of ...
KARL MARX Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soul...
KARL MARX My little cup brims with tiddles.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming ...
MICHAEL JOHNS Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.
PIERRE LAPLACE Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
ALBERT CAMUS I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a singl...
LADY GAGA the most soulless place I had ever been . . It was demeaning. It was degrading. It was very lonely.
KARL ROVE Words don’t take you anywhere, at the most they aid in a mental projection; it’s the experience ...
RAMANA PEMMARAJU When I did these psychological characters like the drug addicts, the ones who were rejected and deje...
KANGANA RANAUT Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming ...
MICHAEL JOHNS Russia continues to side with... rogue states and terrorist organizations, following Vladimir Putin&...
MIKE POMPEO when obliterated regiment in the crystal spoon dropping on the floor wiped by the tyranny of soulles...
LANA RADOVIC I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after,...
PATRICIA KAAS Those who think they have no need of others become unreasonable.
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE Things wabi-sabi have no need for the reassurance of status or the validation of market culture. The...
LEONARD KOREN He impressed Vladimir with his knowledge and standing and I think he would put far younger men to sh...
PHIL ANDERTON A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even on solitary little vase of a l...
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV ..."offensive" is frequently but a synonym for "unusual"...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV People don't feel Europe and they don't feel Brussels. The idea is to bring some life into a soulles...
ELIE BARNAVI You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO “All creatures are born isolated and have no need of one another."
MARQUIS DE SADE The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If ...
WILLIAM NICHOLSON In order to make money the first thing is to have no need of it
LUDOVIC HALEVY Is there any possibility of giving international air travel, which we all need and use and hate, a t...
PAUL JOHNSON Greatness should have no victims
Greatness should need no victims.
HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN I think Vladimir Putin, because of all of his experiences, has a real fear about being - about NATO ...
CHARLIE ROSE Who am I?? No, No you don't ask the questions I ask them my question is how much stupid are you??......
DEYTH BANGER The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.
ALICE HOFFMAN (THE FORTELLING) Hate and anger solves everything... Or something. Use the force... Apparently. You'd better do what ...
MICHAEL BOAG As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is a...
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AKHMED ZAKAYEV Your story matters. The thoughts you think matter. The words you use matter. It can be the differenc...
KRISTIN RATH If you can keep yourself with poverty you have no need of riches
DANISH PROVERB Vladimir told me he was going to retire and then his representative asked that he be allowed to have...
LOU LAMORIELLO I have no need to conform to the stereotypes others have defined for me.
JONATHAN LOCKWOOD HUIE The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies.
CHARLES MANSON I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as stor...
PIERS ANTHONY You fixed yourself. You didn’t need me.”
“No, Sydney.” My voice was ragged. “I ...
RICHELLE MEAD Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great dea...
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RICHARD MATVICHUK Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint ...
GRAHAM GREENE Crosses?"
"Definitely"
"Why?"
"Because they're evil, soulless, bloodsucking fiends?"<...
RACHEL CAINE Never say 'no' to pie. No matter what, wherever you are, diet-wise or whatever, you know wha...
AL ROKER Good by-aye!" she chanted, my American sweet immortal dead love; for she is dead and immortal if you...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.
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DAVID HAROLD FINK It's clear that the people are in desperate need, ... They have no food, no water, no power, no phon...
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ASHWIN SANGHI When the Obama administration announced its 'reset' of relations with Russia in 2009, Americ...
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VLADIMIR NABOKOV The culprits must be punished,
VLADIMIR PUTIN It is necessary to suppress any extremist actions, on all sides, regardless of their origin.
VLADIMIR PUTIN I am the wealthiest man, not just in Europe, but in the whole world. I collect emotions. I am wealth...
VLADIMIR PUTIN Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights...
VLADIMIR PUTIN Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and i...
VLADIMIR PUTIN Turn off your iron and save the city.
VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.
VLADIMIR PUTIN Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities ...
VLADIMIR PUTIN A thousand years ago five minutes were
Equal to forty ounces of fine sand.
Outstare the st...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV China is a great country with a great culture, populated by fascinating, industrious and talented pe...
VLADIMIR PUTIN There was no Lo to behold.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV You know, our ratings after this match will be very close - I think I can also become the world numb...
VLADIMIR KRAMNIK A planar geometrical figure with more than three vertices can be decomposed into a set of triangles,...
VLADIMIR PRELOG Without false modesty, I feel that, when I'm on the stage, I'm the king, the boss of the sit...
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ We'll be ruthless with rebels
VLADIMIR PUTIN