Scott Leopold > Quotes

“Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.”
~ Gabriel Garcia”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
~ Thomas Merton”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker

“We are victims of our reality. We become what the world perceives us to be, what society wants us to be.”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker

“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.”
~Arthur Miller”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker

“The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.” ~ Rob Liano”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker

“True success is measured not by what we possess but rather how much we are loved.”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker

“Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.”
~J.K. Rowling”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker

“I’m restless like a caged bird that flutters its wings in hopes of freeing itself.”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker

“There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...”
~ John Lennon”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker

“It sounds like you are giving up." "No, I'm just letting go, there's a big difference between the two.”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker

“Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives.”
~Michael Bassey Johnson Cindy Napier’s Diary”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker

“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.”
~ Eugene O'Neill”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
~ J.K. Rowling”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker

“Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in."
~Shannon L. Alder”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker

“These eyes will deceive you, they will destroy you, they will take from you, your innocents, your pride, and eventually your soul. These eyes do not see what you and I see. Behind these eyes, one only finds darkness. These are the eyes of a psychopath.”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker

“The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
~Samuel Johnson”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker

“In the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself."
~ Albert Camus”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker

“Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.” 
~Dave Pelzer”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker

“For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning."
T.S. Eliot”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker

“So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.”
~Alexandre Dumas”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker

“I begged him to talk to me. I thought he would yell, but his silence was far worse.”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker

“The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken." ~Samuel Johnson”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker

“Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in Hell.” 
~Walter Scott”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker

“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
~Ned Vizzini”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker

“The evil that is done to us as children is like a virus that infiltrates our DNA; it becomes a part of who we are. If we are not carful it can be passed on to our children.”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker

“To thine own self be true!”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker

“But, sleep is like a cat; it comes and goes when it wants.”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker

“There are memories that are so horrific to us, we have to try and suppress them by any means necessary. They consume the space where self-esteem struggles to grow.  Their sole purpose is to deprive us of happiness.”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker

“Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.”
~ Mandy Hale”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker

“The heart is vulnerable; something we protect. Every time it's broken we build a wall around it. For some of us our heart is broken so much we find ourselves surrounded by a maze of brick walls. We let no one in. For the unbroken, the heart is what connects them to others. For everyone else it’s the wall that protects us.”
― Scott Leopold, The Joker