Donald Gibson > Donald's Quotes

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

“Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?”
― Bob Dylan, Lyrics, 1962-2001

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies the deepest, most obscure, freshest, rawest oyster of reality in the unfathomable refrigerator of the heart’s ocean, but I am such a one, and there you have it.”
― Leonard Cohen, Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs

“The Harmonica is the world’s best-selling musical instrument. You’re welcome.”
― Bob Dylan

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

“Tonight, I feel like my whole body is made out of memories. I'm a mix-tape, a cassette that's been rewound so many times you can hear the fingerprints smudged on the tape.”
― Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time

“How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable?”
― Gwenn Wright, The BlueStocking Girl

“It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling— that really hollowed-out feeling.”
― J.K. Rowling