Kirstin Maldonado Quotes

A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.

People who write happy songs are often unhappy.

Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.

Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.

I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind of a prude.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of the main things in songwriting is definitely friction between the words and the melody.

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

People love to hate. I have a love-hate relationship with the world. The world loves to hate me.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.

'Dawn (Go Away)' is a sad lyric, but the melody is so happy and fun.

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.

[Dwight Eisenhower is] a soldier who doesn't like or want war. It's like a whore who believes in chastity.

Sad music, I always thought, is more beautiful than other music. But at the same time, I am in my personal life a very happy guy. I have a sense of humor. I am not the kind of depressed guy all the time brooding. No. I am very enthusiastic about things.

In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.

It's a weird dynamic - I guess there is a fine line between hope and sadness. Sometimes you can be feeling both at the same time.

Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.

With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.

It was a curious feeling, that something could be so close and so distant at the same time.

Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.

How can we bless at one moment and curse at another?