The best Quotes from The People Look Like Flowers at Last

She was consumed by 3 simple things:
drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:
youth and beauty.

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.

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

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

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.

"Do you hate people?"
"I don't hate them... I just feel better when they're not around."

My ambition is handicapped by laziness.

'That's the problem with drinking', I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

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.

Education also seemed to be a trap. The little education I had allowed myself had made me more suspicious. What were doctors, lawyers, and scientists? They were just men who allowed themselves to be deprived of their freedom to think and act as individuals.

It's necassary for me sometimes just to be alone and quiet and doing nothing.

'Baby,' I said, 'I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.'

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

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

This is presented as a work of fiction and dedicated to nobody.

That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.

Nothing is worse than to finish a good shit, then reach over and find the toilet paper container empty. Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world. But you do have some say in who hurts you.

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder.

Well you can't never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him!

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

The guy who wants too much risks losing absolutely everything. Of course, the guy who wants too little from life might not get anything at all.

Only those who will risk going too far, can possibly find out how far one can go.

In the beginning of a jorney, no one knows what to expect. They might have a vague idea the road ahead could be rough. That's what makes new beginnings so exciting. You don't know what will happen until it's over.

Beginnings can be painful. But that doesn't mean they're bad.

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.

Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing.