Glen > Glen's Quotes

“I was sentimental about many things: a woman’s shoes under the bed; one hairpin left behind on the dresser; the way they said, 'I’m going to pee.' hair ribbons; walking down the boulevard with them at 1:30 in the afternoon, just two people walking together; the long nights of drinking and smoking; talking; the arguments; thinking of suicide; eating together and feeling good; the jokes; the laughter out of nowhere; feeling miracles in the air; being in a parked car together; comparing past loves at 3am; being told you snore; hearing her snore; mothers, daughters, sons, cats, dogs; sometimes death and sometimes divorce; but always carring on, always seeing it through; reading a newspaper alone in a sandwich joint and feeling nausea because she’s now married to a dentist with an I.Q. of 95; racetracks, parks, park picnics; even jails; her dull friends; your dull friends; your drinking, her dancing; your flirting, her flirting; her pills, your fucking on the side and her doing the same; sleeping together”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“Like Goethe at 80, you know the futility of love and you shrug--you shrug away the warm kiss”
― Jack Kerouac, Tristessa

“I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life - This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours.”
― Jack Kerouac, Tristessa

“You keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again. It doesn't come.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“The world, you tell yourself, will never end.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“Do you realize that all great literature — "Moby Dick," "Huckleberry Finn," "A Farewell to Arms," "The Scarlet Letter," "The Red Badge of Courage," "The Iliad and The Odyssey," "Crime and Punishment," the Bible, and "The Charge of the Light Brigade" — are all about what a bummer it is to be a ...human being?”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“I am always in love.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I used to be afraid of the dark until I learned that I am light and the dark is afraid of me.”
― D.R. Silva

“I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.”
― Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments