Inattentive Quotes

“I know an alcoholic is the worse, but sometimes I wonder if it's better to have a drinking father that lives at home, or a drinking father, that never comes around.”
― Anthony Liccione

“If you see a dandelion as a weed, you’ll spray it. If you see it as a flower, you’ll draw it close, turn it this way and that, and become lost in the colossal burst of slender golden petals that spew sunshine into the darkest of souls. And so, how many things have we sprayed that could have illuminated our souls if we would have let them be more than what we let them be?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It usually seems best to be absent and slightly missed rather than present but distant.”
― Lara Prior-Palmer, Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

“Apathy takes root when I refuse to remember that which I can ill-afford to forget.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I readily confess that in my inattentiveness and selfish pursuits I have forgotten many things I should never have forgotten. But if I forget to kneel before my God in prayer, I might as well forget about everything else I’ve forgotten.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It's not the falling asleep that's the real problem. It's not even the ignorance that one is asleep. The real problem is the denial, as this perpetuates both the sleep and the ignorance.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“She says whatever comes into her head and then she forgets it right after she said it. She's serious when she says it, but after that she might as well have never said a thing.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance