Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I’d just go back to Virginia.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

Time itself comes in drops.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Smiles are the language of love.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

Never take anything for granted.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

Love is a serious mental disease.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

I’m not a god – I do bad things.

Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

To be loved is very demoralizing.

I have no human feelings.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

I can’t really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.