emcdownald’s most recent Quotables

Life's as kind as you let it be.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

Loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude.

"I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now."

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

I had no interests. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn’t understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go.

We are all museums of fear.

I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that death will tremble to take us.

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.

You know, I believe we have two lives...the life we learn with and the life we live with after that.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware

They [corporations] cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicate, for they have no souls.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. …corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.