Circus Life Quotes

“Clowns are made by those who made a circus out of life.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Clowns are respectable only in a circus.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Life will not throw the same rings again”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“At various points in our lives we had considered joining the circus, a daydream handed to us, in fact, by our parents. If we got mad and were casting around for something to do about it, our parents would suggest with great mirth that we run away to join the circus and eventually it became a concrete possibility in our minds, a genuine emergency hatch through which we could slip if things became too unbearable. Although we hadn’t been to a circus, we had ideas of what it might entail: days of trundling along in painted wagons and stringing cooking pots over rosy fires and sitting in front of mirrors lit up by light bulbs as large as conference pears, broken up by spurts of action in which we tested our fantastic discipline against the messy and somewhat arbitrary nature of death. I don’t think it’s something kids think about anymore and anyway we never did it. We stayed right where we were, which our parents always knew would be the case and also why they’d offered it up like a dare in the first place. It was unkind but also their way of reaffirming the cords that bound us.”
― Krystelle Bamford, Idle Grounds

“The most humiliating thing isn't being used. It's catching yourself being grateful for the parts of it that felt like attention.”
― Jahaira Telles, Chasing A Circus

“You knew what he was," Victor said. "From the beginning. I watched you know it. And you went in anyway. And you were hurt in exactly the way you knew you were going to be hurt." He paused. "I find that interesting."

I set down the pins I was holding.

Very carefully.

"What you find interesting," I said, "is that I did something self-destructive with full awareness. What you're not asking is why."

"I know why," he said.

"Do you?"

"Because knowing the ending doesn't protect you from wanting the middle." He said it the way he said everything — without heat, without judgment, a man reading a specimen note aloud. "You knew it would end badly and you wanted the part before badly, badly enough to accept the cost.”
― Jahaira Telles, Chasing A Circus