Devolution Quotes

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

“Maybe you are amazing and beautiful. I just can't see it anymore.”
― 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

“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

“It is the present now and at noon yesterday, it was the present then. When noon tomorrow arrives, it will also be the present. The present is all there is.”
― John Casey, Devolution

“So hard to describe how I know that it's true, I don't quite know where to begin. Like conveying the sight of a sunrise to someone who's always slept in.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“Or, am I inconsequential to it all? A random, forgettable moment in your delicate, pastel existence?”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“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

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

“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

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

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

“Reflect on your thoughts, understand and learn from who you were yesterday. Then add that knowledge to who you are today. In this manner, you will be a more knowledgeable and spiritual person tomorrow. Then do it again tomorrow. And the next day…”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“In order to achieve sustained spiritual growth and serenity, you must first accept that it is your thoughts that make you who you are.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

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

“I’m grateful for the little things you do for me. Not to show me you love me, rather, because you love me.”
― 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

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

“The fates pay deference to the power of our love. Our disparate paths converge. I feel it.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“Explaining true love is like conveying the sight of a sunrise to someone who’s always slept in.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“Choosing to do nothing, or even the next best thing, because of apprehension or fear is a coward's failure. A craven dereliction.”
― 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

“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

“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

“Reach down deep and draw a line. Continue thinking, walking tall. The problem's theirs, never mine. The insanity of it all.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“Afraid of nightfall closing in; the lambent god lifts my run. Flying now on Icarus wings, cannot help but chase the Sun.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“Wouldn’t it be perfect if I could fit in and never worry about what others were thinking? To be free of these vacant, immutable fantasies and released from this ceaseless want of emotional refuge? To be normal. Would that I were.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

“Rocket-fueled rapt ambition; fate concedes to my volition. There is nothing I can't take wherever there's a win at stake.”
― John Casey, Raw Thoughts

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