Eric > Eric's Quotes

“There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if there were no exceptions, no sunny days, no acts of random kindness.”
― T.C. Boyle, The Tortilla Curtain

“The lucky ones are the people like your husband there. The ones who find work that means something to them. That they can really put their heart into, however foolish it might look to other people.”
― Michael Chabon, Telegraph Avenue

“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it’s too late.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“If you lie to your husband - even about something so banal as how much you drink - each lie is a brick in a wall going up between you, and when he tells you he loves you, it's deflected away.”
― Mary Karr, Lit

“We're not made to wallow in pleasure. Pleasure is joy's assassin.”
― Mary Karr, Lit

“It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I lived to be forgotten because I'd forgotten how to live”
― Joseph Meyering Sr

“achieving true sobriety goes beyond abstinence. it's also about healing your soul, apologizing for damage you did to other, and seeking forgiveness.”
― Lou Gramm, Juke Box Hero: My Five Decades in Rock 'n' Roll

“I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.”
― Herman Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend