Albert Holmes > Albert's Quotes

“There's a lot of humiliation in
living, but that's okay, for if
the gods are always laughing,
then surely at times they must
be laughing with us.”
― J. Andrew Schrecker, Insomniacs, We

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“And yes, life is
mostly boring, and
we each go through it
feeling ugly or like
a failure, but sometimes
the sun cuts through
a tree line just right, or
you get to hold
someone's hand for
the first time.”
― J. Andrew Schrecker, Insomniacs, We

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than too late”
― Charles Bukowski

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

“Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.”
― Charles Simic

“These fragments I have shored against my ruins”
― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems

“I once found a phoenix
charred in its own ashes. I
brought it home with
me, wept through the night,
and then tossed it to
the wind--its brittle body
dispersing all about.

This thing without
a name and deep within
me--how it truly believes
that if something is meant
to take flight, then it
must one way or another.”
― J. Andrew Schrecker, Insomniacs, We