Emery > Emery's Quotes

“Grief can destroy you --or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. OR you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for granted the love and laughter of each day, and didn't allow yourself to consider the sacredness of it. But when it's over and you're alone, you begin to see that it wasn't just a movie and a dinner together, not just watching sunsets together, not just scrubbing a floor or washing dishes together or worrying over a high electric bill. It was everything, it was the why of life, every event and precious moment of it. The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss. And the ache is always there, but one day not the emptiness, because to nurture the emptiness, to take solace in it, is to disrespect the gift of life.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Hours

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
― Pablo Picasso

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
― Edgar Degas

“We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.”
― Bob Ross

“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”
― Anthony G. Oettinger

“For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”
― Antonio Porchia

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
― Joseph Joubert

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith

“I don't want to die without any scars.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.”
― Harvey Milk

“I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

“A lot of you cared, just not enough.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“Résumé
Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful,
Nooses give,
Gas smells awful.
You might as well live.”
― Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

“The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.”
― Susanna Kaysen

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.”
― Nina LaCour, Hold Still

“I'm the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a class with her.”
― Tom Leveen, Party

“Keep passing the open windows.”
― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire