John Casey > John's Quotes

“Even the happiest fall prey to the plastic, the vacuous virtual. And some little voice keeps whispering to us 'There’s something wrong here.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“If you’ve lost everything, find yourself. If you haven’t, find yourself anyway.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“Sometimes it's better to beat a dead horse than to worry about whether or not it might recover.”
― John Casey, Devolution

“I'll carve a special little niche, safe from the perils of life, where I can make a place for hope. First, I need to find a knife.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“I just don't have time for all this worthless chatter. I'm apathetic, because it doesn't matter.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“If you believe you have found yourself, keep searching. You are deeper than you think.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“I find it all too easy to overlook the good things. I suppose this is common, but I don't wish to be common.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“The future is as much an unknown masterpiece as your mind, imagination, and conduct can fashion.”
― John Casey, Devolution

“The bad ones, the deep, dark secrets, stay hidden the longest. Festering, roiling, gnawing.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“Things we have done and said and experienced, or things that have been said and done to us, those are recorded. Facsimiles of a bygone present. It’s data, more or less. What we do with that data, with that information, has impact on how we feel and what we choose to do in the now.”
― John Casey, Devolution

“We'll be consoled somehow, by the odd notion that it's the thought that counts.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“Too many walls in every direction, with cryptic boxes stacked too high to see. I cannot climb out and cannot push through to wherever I’ve left my empathy.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“It helps to treat time as it is—a continuum. That is to say, there is no such thing as the past. And likewise, no such thing as the future. ‘Past’ and ‘future’ are just monikers for concepts invented by man to simplify the processes and order of life. The truth is, time takes place continuously in the present.”
― John Casey, Devolution

“Evil is innate, I have found. Ignored or misunderstood, it develops insidiously, on its own.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“A sorrow I feel, for beauty in distress. Delicate, bent and weeping. Assailed by hurt.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“I harbor an unbridled ardor of life, an impassioned love for living. Not for being, for existence. Rather, a zeal for the Earth's entire spectrum of possibilities and experiences to choose from and to do.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“We cannot know someone from his or her actions and words alone; we need to understand their thinking.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“I'm grasping for some sense of alacrity and the compulsion to perform in a broad way, before life's random curtain call retires me from this tired satire, this comically absurd play.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“Leave others more qualified to worry for the stars.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“The need to breathe, air, so intrinsic to life. So is love the sole averment of ever having been truly alive.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“To have known love and lost leaves one disconsolate and voided, forever seeking some course of revival. A way to bring it back, to breathe again.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“A door appears as I tremble cold, receding portal of fading light. Frantically clawing to find a hold, but there's nothing left, and nothing right.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“Even when dreaming I'm falling so fast, then waking last-second, eyes wide. And feeling, after the terror has passed, a little emptier inside.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“Where is this fraud called hope? Tell me how would it feel? Why does it evade me? I have no faith it's real.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“Nothing gives like nothing left, where naught but scattered ashes lie.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“Could treats so good be bad at all? A hunger oh so strong... 'La Dolce Vita' is my call, delicious can't be wrong.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“Spin this that way, that to this, it's quite easy to do. Discretion is unneeded where the roadblocks are few.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“Hoping, dreaming on I stray to her smile, a world away. Love unfulfilled, I rise and a world away, she cries.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“Perception is an excuse not to see that everything's just as it seems, to me.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“Maybe you are amazing and beautiful. I just can't see it anymore.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts