Rolf Kamler > Rolf's Quotes

“Intentions always look better on paper than in reality.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“My uncle's a big man, muscular. He's given to bulk in his shoulders.Yes, I suppose he could be a little frightening.

So is his wife, Sara interjected with a smile. "I couldn't tell them apart."

He pinched her backside for being insolent. "Dunnford has a mustache."

"So does she.”
― Julie Garwood, The Gift

“The one thing I can tell you is that you wont survive for yourself. I know because I would never have come this far. A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and shield it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.”
― Nick Cave

“So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.”
― Jack Kerouac

“If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you.
Kafka (note to himself in journal)”
― Kafka, Franz

“In fact he was no longer persuaded that blood and revolution made useful tools for altering the concepts in a person’s mind. Who said it?—probably Confucius—” I can’t beat a sculpture from a stone with a sledgehammer; I can’t free the soul of a man by violence.” Peace was here, peace was now. Peace promised in any other time or place was a lie.”
― Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke

“كأن صميم ذاتها قد انصدع فاغراً”
― بول أوستر, Man in the Dark