Casey Kiser > Casey's Quotes

“I am this fiery snail crawling home.”
― Charles Bukowski , Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame

“If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.”
― Leonard Cohen

“I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.”
― Jim Morrison, Eyes: Poetry, 1967-1971

“You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.”
― Terence McKenna

“Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke!”
― Bette Midler

“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”
― James Baldwin

“Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.”
― Tobias Wolff, This Boy's Life

“I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.”
― Voltairine de Cleyre

“Don't mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me.”
― Al Capone

“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”
― Bob Marley

“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul”
― John Muir

“she said, these dead petals,
honey, brought me here”
― tori amos

“That’s what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism. But you shouldn’t worry — poetry is still first. Cigarettes and alcohol follow”
― Anne Sexton

“They might not need me; but they might.
I'll let my head be just in sight;
A smile as small as mine might be
Precisely their necessity.”
― Emily Dickenson

“Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“A thinking woman sleeps with monsters
that beak which grips her, she becomes.”
― Adrienne Rich

“Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, Une saison en enfer suivi de Illuminations et autres textes

“I don't like ass kissers, flag wavers or team players. I like people who buck the system. Individualists. I often warn people: "Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an "I" in independence, individuality and integrity.'" Avoid teams at all cost. Keep your circle small. Never join a group that has a name. If they say, "We're the So-and-Sos," take a walk. And if, somehow, you must join, if it's unavoidable, such as a union or a trade association, go ahead and join. But don't participate; it will be your death. And if they tell you you're not a team player, congratulate them on being observant.”
― George Carlin

“God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with.”
― Cyndi Lauper

“they say suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. the problem with being human isn't really so temporary.”
― Nic Sheff, Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

“boys don't like
smart girls

they like

push-around-in-a-cart
kinda girls

target-for-their-dart
kinda girls

meat-for-their-shark
kinda girls”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Swan Wreck

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart.”
― Richard Yates

“That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
― George Carlin

“I am stuffing your mouth with your
promises and watching
you vomit them out upon my face.”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

“If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.”
― Madonna

“I have suffered the atrocity of sunsets.

--from "Elm", written 19 April 1962”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel

“Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.”
― Henry Rollins

“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”
― William S. Burroughs