Yesterday Will Make You Cry Quotes

“It seemed so illogical to punish some poor criminal for doing something that civilization taught him how to do so he could have something that civilization taught him how to want. It seemed to him as wrong as if they had hung the gun that shot the man.”
― Chester Himes, Yesterday Will Make You Cry

“Don't ever lean your whole weight on happiness, Jimmy. You fall too hard too hard when it gives away”
― Chester Himes, Yesterday Will Make You Cry

“For he reached the conclusion that everything he had ever seen, or had ever done, or had ever dreamed of doing would in the end betray him. That no matter what you had been, or ever hoped to be, a foot of greenish vomit hanging from your teeth would make you much the same as any other bastard.”
― Chester Himes, Yesterday Will Make You Cry