Will Sasaki > Will's Quotes

“The things that bring couples together will always terrify me more than the things that tear us apart. They will always be harder to explain. They will always keep me up later. Love gone wrong has inspired so many great songs, but somehow, love going right is what's bizarre. It exposes deep freakcraft in the universe. As far as I'm concerned, 'some people are very kind' is the scariest line Bob Dylan ever wrote. Compared to that, his breakup songs are kid stuff. Some people are very kind and there's nothing in the universe to explain why.
It's a mystery how people lose each other--but to me, it's an even stranger mystery we manage to stay together, or to collide together at all.”
― Rob Sheffield, Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love & Karaoke

“Mutually caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain. We need to accept the fact that it's not in the power of any human being to provide all these things all the time. for any of us, mutually caring relationships will always include some measure of unkindness and impatience, intolerance, pessimism, envy, self-doubt, and disappointment.”
― Fred Rogers, You Are Special: Neighborly Wit And Wisdom From Mister Rogers

“I will have fun like my life depends on it cause it does.”
― Neil Hilborn, Our Numbered Days

“You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.”
― Richard Siken

“Why else do we live, except to be loved and remembered by those we love?”
― Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters

“We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people……..”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Pygmy

“Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

“The key to being a warrior is not to be afraid of who you are.”
― Tom Spanbauer, In the City of Shy Hunters

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.”
― chuck palahniuk

“The government says Rant's alive because they need a villain. The kids say he's alive because they need a hero.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

“A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. ”
― Allen Ginsberg

“Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
― James Dickey

“The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”
― Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

“I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.”
― Aleister Crowley, Moonchild

“To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.”
― Robert Graves

“Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.”
― Jess C Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel

“Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.”
― Sigmund Freud

“A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.”
― Randall Jarell

“The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“Humans are part of nature, and nature is one great big wood chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones, and hair.”
― Douglas Coupland, Player One: What Is to Become of Us