Craig Stone > Quotes

“At the end of the world the sunset is like a child smashing a pack of crayons into God’s face.”
― Craig Stone, Life Knocks

“I want to avoid people, because there’s only one thing worse than being homeless, and that’s people who are not, knowing that you are.”
― Craig Stone, The Squirrel that Dreamt of Madness

“Parents raise children then grow old, and their children forget the things their old parents did for them, because their brains don’t remember before they grew selfish.
There are buildings all over the world full of old people sitting around looking out of windows, full of hate for their selfish sons and daughters.
And meanwhile, the selfish sons and daughters look out of their windows at their children playing and think how wonderful their unbreakable bond of love is between them and their children.”
― Craig Stone, How to Hide from Humans

“My landlord lives in the flat at the bottom of the stairs. I rent a studio flat from him, and live at the top of the staircase. There are two more flights of stairs and four more flats, but it’s me he is obsessed with.”
― craig stone, Life Knocks

“Small quarrels and tensions were expected because of our new environment. Every relationship has them. Each quarrel was soon forgotten and floated away on a wave. And then sometimes, on our silly days, the arguments returned on the wave, but the wave returned taller, a Tsunami, and neither of us knew where to run or what to do.”
― Craig Stone, Life Knocks

“Some days I am the flower beneath the machine. And the machine rolls slowly on, blocking the sun, without a care for what it tramples beneath.”
― Craig Stone, The Squirrel that Dreamt of Madness

“In the end, they will say this of the human race: they had the freedom to go anywhere, but sat in front of the television. They were each responsible for saving the world, but they turned over the channel.”
― Craig Stone, How to Hide from Humans

“Without the sleeping bag I'm just somebody up early in the morning, sitting under a tree. With the sleeping bag I'm nobody up early, sitting under a tree: a slight, but important difference in how I’ll be perceived.”
― Craig Stone, The Squirrel that Dreamt of Madness

“They spend billions of their currency every year on killing each other, and because they invest so much into killing, they don’t have enough money to run their shops, to give people enough homes or food.
They have guns that can shoot out an eyeball from hundreds of yards away, and people who want to shoot an eyeball out from hundreds of yards: yet they turn both eyes blind to the problems humanity face.”
― Craig Stone, How to Hide from Humans

“We dream of the world we could have made, and wake up in the world that we did.”
― Craig Stone, The Squirrel that Dreamt of Madness

“Mohammad’s face is serious. He takes another puff of his cigarette and coughs out dead air which, after leaving his lungs and hitting the outside world, takes its first breath on a journey to a fresher life. He drops his cigarette into the snow, places his foot over the burning end, twists his shoe to make sure it’s out, and tells me he’s trusting me. I have no idea what he’s trusting me with, but whatever it is, it’s so dangerous or evil he can’t bring himself to speak of it out loud.
Hitler has just shared with me his plans for the final solution, and I've been subtly informed I have no choice but to come along for the ride.”
― Craig Stone, Life Knocks

“Some humans have a notion covering up their face makes them stand out to other people who don’t notice them, because they look like everyone else.
They take away the beauty of individuality, by building their faces on fake foundations.
They all want to look the same, but have no reason to flock together.”
― Craig Stone, How to Hide from Humans

“When we’re young nothing offends us, except adults telling us what should. Then when we become adults, nothing offends us, except we are offended on behalf of our young.”
― Craig Stone, The Squirrel that Dreamt of Madness

“Nobody has to do anything wrong to end up living a life that feels like it’s not their own, all they have to do is take a step back, and hope for the best.”
― Craig Stone, The Squirrel that Dreamt of Madness

“My eyes open after my mind. All eyes always do.”
― Craig Stone, The Squirrel that Dreamt of Madness

“We used to talk and smile seven days ago when I was wearing a suit. Now I'm dressed in a beard and smell of dog shit I don’t even get eye contact. I ask her how her week is going, and she looks to her friend behind the counter as if to say: I think this creep is hitting on me. Shall we call the police?”
― Craig Stone, The Squirrel that Dreamt of Madness

“A person dies every second, but there’s also a six year old somewhere, every second, trying to move an apple with his mind.”
― craig stone, Life Knocks

“Lies are ants, the truth is the sun, and questions are a magnifying glass waiting to be picked up by the curious.”
― Craig Stone, Deep In The Bin Of Bob

“The days and the light feel like brief moments of torture, put here to remind us of what we don’t have any more. Joy is instantaneous, that, is the wonder of joy. Misery and suffering sneak up on someone like a bastard. They drip into your brain slowly, over time. Until one morning you wake up crying and you have no idea why.”
― Craig Stone, Deep In The Bin Of Bob

“There really is no time for wallowing in the miseries of life: we don’t have all the time in the world, we have all the world, and not enough time.”
― Craig Stone, Deep In The Bin Of Bob

“I stared up in disbelief at the information my eyes fed my brain, and lost myself to the stars.
For the first time in my life I had a greater idea of how infinitesimally small our planet really is and, furthermore, how tiny and insignificant I am in the grand scheme of the vast universe.
I took a seat on a rock next to Lily and took in the moment to comprehend the vastness of everything else, and the incredible smallness of I.”
― Craig Stone, Life Knocks

“All snowmen look to the sky, knowing their death will be delivered by the horizon. Before dawn, their life becomes the darkest. The moment before the sun burns all.
The Snowmen go mental. Kill or be killed.
I only just escaped the violent puddles, the sticks and stones.
The broken carrot noses.”
― craig stone, How to Hide from Humans

“Smile sometimes: it won’t add years to your life, but it will add life to your years.”
― Craig Stone, The Squirrel that Dreamt of Madness

“Love is born from disagreeing over something we believe in. Hate is born from disagreeing over something we fear.”
― Craig Stone, How to Hide from Humans

“Friday dusk becomes Friday evening. The park is feverish with life. A young Asian man screams into his mobile phone, not stopping to listen: a young man with his heart in his penis.”
― Craig Stone, The Squirrel that Dreamt of Madness

“The question should be who do we want to be when we grow up, not what.”
― Craig Stone, The Squirrel that Dreamt of Madness

“He wasn't like some of the hippies in England, where the qualification to rebel is planted by the guilt raised from being a spoilt child with a good education. He was a real hippy born from being forced to kill for his army until he was twenty one. He had long hair because the army made him shave his head. The army made him shave every day too. Now he had a beard. His face for a long time was not his own. When this guy said he was all about peace he wasn't talking about peace because his mum never got him the horse he wanted for his eighteenth birthday, he was talking about peace because he’d seen war. He talked about love because he knew hate: hate for those above him, hate for those he had served with, hate for enemies not born his but who became so and, lastly, hate for himself for how his mind had been controlled.”
― Craig Stone, Life Knocks

“They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but us sheep know, true beauty is not in the eye: it lives in the mind.”
― Craig Stone, How to Hide from Humans

“The word begone is a Russian doll. A small, single word, which contains so many others; and when all the smaller words inside line up, they look like a bridge: Be Beg Ego Go On One.”
― Craig Stone, The Squirrel that Dreamt of Madness

“Our problems come not from what we believe, but from how we believe in what we do.”
― craig stone, Life Knocks