I Wished Quotes

“When everyone you know is either very far away from you or hides, you find someone dead to love.”
― Dennis Cooper, I Wished

“To you, the fairy tale’s a cheesy medium that builds physically unsound worlds that one eventually outgrows, and to me a fairy tale is city planning.”
― Dennis Cooper, I Wished

“I felt that when I’d wished to die, I was being who I really was, sans interference from the world or from the priorities and hopes that had polluted me through other people’s minor needs for me or from the books I read incessantly. It was like I’d found myself, and I was someone who had never had the things I really wanted, plainly never would, and whom no one would fully comprehend.”
― Dennis Cooper, I Wished

“The fact that even innovative art grows cordial over time is a catastrophe that makes groundbreaking young musicians with drinking problems for good reasons know they can’t be gods with giant amps despite the bliss that animates them when they’re trying hard.”
― Dennis Cooper, I Wished

“I felt as though my wish for death contained a kind of logic that I couldn’t access with my usual overly protective thoughts. That, prior to then, I’d been a kind of actor or self-hypnotist, not just when I socialized with other people but when I even thought of other people, which, put together, constituted almost always. That my wish had been completely understanding because it knew me, unlike my friends.”
― Dennis Cooper, I Wished

“That’s how easy it is to hurt me.”
― Dennis Cooper, I Wished

“I worship the flowing lava and whatever else a billion years ago that eventually formed the ground he walks on.”
― Dennis Cooper, I Wished

“Between the dead guitarists’ minor outreach and the distanced”
― Dennis Cooper, I Wished