If you’re finding life to be the one thing that’s trying to kill you, I want you to stay alive to rise with the sun and fight back.
It hurt to pull out the slivers but I knew that I couldn’t bleed anymore, I had lost too much blood already. Now I remain, scarred and regaining strength.
Freedom gives you everything you need to fail on a monumental scale.
I think to myself and at the same time, I know these thoughts can’t be the ones I really want to think. That there must be something better to have on my mind than what fills it and refuses to stop occupying all the room.
Life has no instruction manual. Parts and labor can be impossible to find. Many go down the road with parts that are in great need of service. A breakdown is eventual.
There’s no such thing as friendship. You just get what you need when you need it as fast as you can. The only reason that people give is so they can take later on.
The countryside is beautiful. I’ve never seen anything like it. Thatched roofs on the houses. Snow everywhere, the sky is so blue. I’m 22 years old today.
My love runs deeper than the wounds I inflict upon myself, deeper than the sweat that pours from my body. My love runs deeper than the tears that roll down my face. My hate runs deeper than the wounds I inflict upon myself, deeper than the sweat that pours from my body. My hate runs deeper than the tears that roll down my face.
I turn the corner and go into the store and get what I need. The lady at the checkout asks me how I’m doing, and I know she doesn’t really want to know so I don’t say anything. These people always make me want to destroy.
How lame it is for me to sit in some cushy living room watching Apocalypse Now, on videocassette no less. You think you have pain? That guy went up the river to kill a guy. I’m sitting in a suburban living room on a plush carpet with Search and Destroy tattooed on my back and I’m watching the real thing, it makes touring seem rather easy in comparison. I.
I have come to the idea of rising below and letting the circle run its course. I will no longer fight the wheel inside me. Now I understand the strength of succumbing to the storm, joining the maelstrom, finding power in its turmoil.
Soldier from Space. Soldier of a different kind. Soldier of a different mind, from the dark and into light, then back again.
It is you who are the basket cases. For every moment you hated your job, cursed your wife and sold yourself to a dream that you didn’t even conceive. For the times your soul screamed yes and you said no. For all of that. Your self torture.
I need to know what you think of me so I can form an opinion about myself.
There are a few things that are mine. I see this now. Like today, sitting in this diner. This time is mine. These thoughts are mine. Memories are mine. I don’t own much. It’s nice to know that there are some things that no one will be able to take from me.
Don’t take candy from strangers unless you’re willing to take a ride in the car.
Music makes life possible.
He shuffled into middle-age silently and without protest.
One morning, he woke up and all he could think of was that he had been destroyed by his parents and it was too late to change. They had taken him like a con man takes a drunk sailor. He had believed too much. It was the grind that finally got to him.
It’s hard to change adults. They are going to do what they are going to do.