The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.
If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.
No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
Make me into anything, but just love me.
Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.
Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.
No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.
You can’t fool people into loving you.
It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.
After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.
You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.
Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.
Only after disaster can we be resurrected.
You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.
The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.
We just had a near-life experience!
Anymore, no one's mind is their own.
The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!
Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?
If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin.
Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.
If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.
Imagine there is no God. There is no Heaven or Hell. There is only your son and his son and his son, and the world you leave for them.
It sounds as if you'd like to be God.
If you're male, and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And sometimes you find your father in your career.
Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.
The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.
You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.
Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.
It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.
Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.
some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.
I don't want to die without any scars.
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?
A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?""Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.
Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.
It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.
Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.
The lucky ones are just born dead.
The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.
Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.
It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.
What's up with you? How come you're being like this?' Because it's the truth. This is the world we live in.
All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.
By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.
After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.
Some people still think knowledge is power.
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