The difference between false memories and true ones is the
same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the
most real, the most brilliant.
Are you insinuatin’ that my daughter is a liar?Oh, no, not at all. I’m saying your daughter is a liar. Surely you can appreciate the difference.
If you want to catch beasts you don’t see every day,You have to go places quite out of the way,You have to go places no others can get to.You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.
These wisest men of all ages should be scrutinized closely. Were they all perhaps shaky on their legs? Tottery? Decadent? Late? Could it be that wisdom appears on earth as a Raven, attracted by a little whiff of carrion?
We have nothing that is really our own; we hold everything as a loan.
Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It’s still better than high school.
Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.
…time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it.
Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same…They can be neither separated, nor mixed.
Phaedra of Alonso’s death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage.
When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time.
When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I’ll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave.
You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
How preposterous and ruthless time is; just a slight hesitation, and it will strip your life down. You will be left heartbroken, and there will be no turning back.
Nobody knows you.
You don’t know yourself.
And I, who am half in love with you,
What am I in love with?
My own imaginings?
For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.
Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
Death isn’t peaceful; it is just nothing. Everything is gone. No more sunrises, no more hopes, no more fears. Nothing.
Hope is not about proving anything. It’s about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.
Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts.
With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling.