Hope > Hope's Quotes

“Equations are the devil's sentences.”
― Stephen Colbert

“Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.”
― Marilyn Manson

“The Vatican won't prosecute pedophile priests but I decide I'm not ready for motherhood and it's condemnation for me? These are the same people that won't support national condom distribution that PREVENTS teenage pregnancy.”
― Sonya Renee Taylor

“What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end...”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“All that peace, man, if felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back.”
― Tim O'Brien

“you're never more alive than when you're almost dead.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write.”
― Tim O'Brien

“Imagination, like reality, has its limits.”
― Tim O'Brien, Going After Cacciato

“When your afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“They sat smoking the dead mans dope until the chopper came”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?”
― Tim O'Brien

“They were afraid of dying, but they were even more afraid to show it.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“Self-injury is a sign of distress not madness. We should be congratulated on having found a way of surviving.”
― Corey Anderson

“Other times, I look at my scars and see something else: a girl who was trying to cope with something horrible that she should never have had to live through at all. My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.”
― Cheryl Rainfield, Scars

“In case you didn't know, dead people don't bleed. If you can bleed-see it, feel it-then you know you're alive. It's irrefutable, undeniable proof. Sometimes I just need a little reminder.”
― Amy Efaw, After

“I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention. For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray days where eight in the morning looks no different from noon and nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen and you are washing a glass in the sink and it breaks-accidentally-and punctures your skin. And then there is this shocking red, the brightest thing in the day, so vibrant it buzzes, this blood of yours. That is okay sometimes because at least you know you’re alive.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“For some reason, I believed that I had above all else an obligation to protect everyone-- my teachers, my family-- from the knowledge of my cutting. What they did not know would not cause them pain.”
― Caroline Kettlewell