Keanu Reeves > Quotes

“If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, then you’re a badass with the heart of an angel.”
― Keanu Reeves

“The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.”
― Keanu Reeves

“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.”
― Keanu Reeves

“I DRAW A HOT SORROW BATH IN MY DESPAIR ROOM WITH A MISERY CANDLE BURNING I WASH MY HAIR WITH REGRET SHAMPOO AFTER CLEANING MYSELF WITH PAIN SOAP I DRY MYSELF WITH MY GORGEOUS WHITE ONE HUNDRED PERCENT AND IT WILL NEVER CHANGE TOWEL THEN SMOOTH ON MY I DON’T DESERVE LOTION AND I HATE MYSELF FACE CREAM THEN I PUT ON MY ALONE AGAIN SILK PYJAMAS AND GO TO SLEEP WHEN THE HUE HAS GONE BLUE AND YOU CAN’T QUITE GRIN AND BEAR IT LET THIS WORD PICTURE REMIND YOU IT CAN ALWAYS BE WORSE”
― Keanu Reeves, Ode to Happiness

“Someone told me the other day that he felt bad for single people because they are lonely all the time. I told him that’s not true I’m single and I don’t feel lonely. I take myself out to eat, I buy myself clothes. I have great times by myself. Once you know how to take care of yourself company becomes an option and not a necessity.”
― Keanu Reeves

“Colbert: What happens after we die?
Reeves: I know the ones who love us will miss us.”
― Keanu Reeves

“Every struggle in your life has shaped you into the person you are today. Be thankful for the hard times, they can only make you stronger.”
― Keanu Reeves

“I was also raised to treat people exactly how I would like to be treated by others. It’s called respect.”
― Keanu Reeves

“Multi-culture is the real culture of the world — a pure race doesn’t exist.”
― Keanu Reeves

“Sometimes we get so caught up in our daily lives that we forget to take the time out to enjoy the beauty in life. It’s like we’re zombies. Look up and take your headphones out. Say “Hi” to someone you see and maybe give a hug to someone who looks like they’re hurting.”
― Keanu Reeves

“You can’t stop the waves but you can learn to surf.”
― Keanu Reeves

“A good date is when you are intoxicated with each other’s company and everything becomes good in the world.”
― Keanu Reeves

“You need to be happy to live, i don't.”
― Keanu Reeves

“I hate when people ask me “Why are you so quiet?” Because I am. That’s how I function. I don’t ask others “Why do you talk so much?” It’s rude.”
― Keanu Reeves

“Grief Changes shape but it never dies”
― Keanu Reeves

“When the people you love are gone, you're alone.”
― Keanu Reeves

“I'm at the stage in life where I stay out of arguments. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right. Have fun.”
― Keanu Reeves

“The great, great run of us, in the tales told by winds and mountains and trees and cities and the sea and Leviathan and the abyss and by him, my erstwhile master then companion, of whom we spoke, are full stops. We are what happens in the infinitely small instance between one moment worthy of remark and another. We are specks. Milliards of us contained within each such tiny beady ink eye.

But I believe, and I hope it is not the arrogance of love that befuddles me because I do not say I loved him and I know he never loved me, but I believe that were he ever to speak of me, if he were to write the great book of his own life, when it came to the few years I was at his side, that he, for the curl of a moment, as if raising a finger, would pause as if for breath.

That I am one of the elect, privileged forever to be a comma.”
― Keanu Reeves, The Book of Elsewhere

“I don't want to be part of a world where being kind is a weakness.”
― Keanu Reeves

“Being "raised right" doesn't mean you don't drink, party and smoke. Being raised right is how you treat people, your manners and respect.”
― Keanu Reeves

“No puedo ser parte de un mundo donde ser una persona amable es una desventaja”
― Keanu Reeves

“I have always used writing to learn what it is that I think. And I find myself disinclined to leave these mysteries unexamined. I would like to know what I think about this.”
― Keanu Reeves, The Book of Elsewhere

“I told you,” he had said. “I don’t want to die. What I want is mortality, and that’s not the same thing.”
― Keanu Reeves, The Book of Elsewhere

“Life is not about being rich, being popular, being highly educated or being perfect. It's about being real, being humble and being kind.”
― Keanu Reeves

“There is unique pathos to the grief of the stoic.”
― Keanu Reeves, The Book of Elsewhere

“Death is quiet. It is the first quiet, and it will be the last.”
― Keanu Reeves, The Book of Elsewhere

“But data are rarely adequate to change one’s ideas. What is needed is a shock, a crisis all one’s own.”
― Keanu Reeves, The Book of Elsewhere

“Once you spent three lifetimes sitting without moving on a stone chair halfway up a mountain, to see what would happen. Nothing happened.”
― Keanu Reeves, The Book of Elsewhere

“Goetic magic? The Abramelin?” She kept her voice neutral. “Some stuff from the Schemhamphorash, I think, and Le Dragon Rouge. I know, it’s a long shot.”
― Keanu Reeves, The Book of Elsewhere

“What I have found,” he said, “is that most journeys take you back to where you left from. But not all. A very long time ago I learned that at the end of some journeys, you start again somewhere new. They don’t happen very often. Such journeys as those. So when they do, it’s worth taking note.”
― Keanu Reeves, The Book of Elsewhere