Dean Cole > Dean's Quotes

“When you spend your childhood around someone who thinks it’s a miracle you’re still alive at the end of another year, it’s hard not to wonder what dangers are out there waiting to kill you. And the influences you have around you as a kid are like the programmers that write the software you run off when you’re older.”
― Dean Cole, Chasing Ghosts

“When it comes to wine and buttocks, the redder, the better.”
― Danny Tyran

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

“A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.”
― Madonna

“They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.”
― Philip Larkin, High Windows

“A friend said to me, “Hey you need to grow a pair. Grow a pair, Bro.” It’s when someone calls you weak, but they associate it with a lack of testicles. Which is weird, because testicles are the most sensitive things in the world. If you suddenly just grew a pair, you’d be a lot more vulnerable. If you want to be tough, you should lose a pair. If you want to be real tough, you should grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.”
― Sheng Wang

“Words are my friends.”
― Al Stewart

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“I believe,’ he goes on, ‘that sometimes the universe gives us experiences we don’t want as a sort of test. It’s our chance to grow. And from personal experience, if we can learn to accept, to surrender to those experiences, life has a way of working out for us.”
― Dean Cole, His Boy

“You’re chasing one thing because you’re running away from something else. Even if you get what you want you’ll look back and regret this. Find out what you’re running away from and deal with that. Then maybe you can start enjoying the journey instead of fighting it out.”
― Dean Cole, His Boy

“It’s risky to stake your happiness and your sense of self on something you can easily lose.”
― Dean Cole, His Boy

“It’s a grotesque thing to see such ignorance, such immaturity, in your elders. We expect age to refine us, to make us the learned teachers of grace and wisdom. But I guess for some it just means more time to get better at being dreadful.”
― Dean Cole, Chasing Ghosts

“I knew the pain of losing someone I cared about, had spent years longing for their return. It isn’t the pain that’s abnormal. It’s the way people expect you not to feel it, as if you have the choice.”
― Dean Cole, Chasing Ghosts

“And some of us need to be sad. It’s the only way we can get others to see just how much pain we’re in.”
― Dean Cole, Chasing Ghosts

“Secrets and lies. They’re like arrows that pierce our hearts, shattering our reality, exposing the ugly truth we don’t want to see. You can pull out the barb, but the wound never heals, festering until every part of you is infected with mistrust.”
― Dean Cole, Capturing Magick

“The problem with love is it’s best friends with hate. I’ve seen a lot of people who claim to love people do very bad things to those same people.”
― Dean Cole, Capturing Magick