Eric Gamalinda Quotes

#1. Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do? - Author: Nicholas Sparks

#2. Forgetting: that, too, was the heart's slow way of healing, but it could only be done alone. Love and loss turns us into the most solitary of creatures, their mysteries can never entirely be shared. - Author: Eric Gamalinda

#3. He was a poet -oh all men are when they're in love. - Author: Eric Gamalinda

#4. I would like to write a suicide note in three and a half
languages
and travel south on a Thursday towards
some form of life outside of earth - Author: Eric Gamalinda

#5. I figured if I told it to myself often enough, I would start believing it. - Author: Lisa Kleypas

#6. Let her remain where she is. A constellation away. - Author: Eric Gamalinda

#7. The ambition of most beings is just to stay alive, overeat, spend too much, and avoid hard work. I'm happy that I can achieve much more than that ... and we all die sooner or later. A death in service of a great ideal is a fine thing. - Author: Karen Traviss

#8. We, like the people of Israel, would like to think we get to name God. By naming God, we hope to get the kind of god we need; that is, a god after our own likeness. - Author: Stanley Hauerwas

#9. AirMech was ported, I guess, but they made a complete VR mode for it. It's a tabletop game. It's incredibly compelling. I find it a lot more compelling in VR. - Author: Brendan Iribe

#10. Under the rubric of religious freedom, we respect the right to worship differently much more than the right to worship not at all. - Author: Wendy Kaminer

#11. Remember that all is One ... and what you do to your neighbor, your friend or your foe, is a reflection of what you think of your Creator. - Author: Edgar Cayce

#12. Baffled and disgruntled, I fill my Woolworths trolley with dead turkey and lamb, and wonder when Love was lost, among the Christmas crowd. - Author: Judy Croome

#13. In the landscape of despair, everything was a miracle. - Author: Eric Gamalinda

#14. I deny the fact that when I kill time, time is actually killing me - Author: Eric Gamalinda

#15. Today, as I look back on those years, I realized there is nothing to understand, that everything is clear to everyone all along. - Author: Eric Gamalinda

#16. The homosexuals fist fuck in the steam room
while the janitor isn't looking. He calls
and never speaks but you can hear Oahu rain.
Press your ear against the glass and heart another
life
not happening, the soundless blur of snow
on the plasma screen. - Author: Eric Gamalinda

#17. My angels are jellyfish,
electric, nearly invisible,
armed with poisoned harpoons.
My archangels are yellow tang.
They feed on sunlight.
They speak through color.
Anything in their paths turns blind. - Author: Eric Gamalinda

#18. I want to take you to a place of pure magic ... It's the place athletes call the "zone". Buddhists call "satori" and ravers call "trance". I call it the Silver Desert. It's a place of pure light that holds the dark within it. It's a place of pure rhythm. - Author: Gabrielle Roth

#19. I'll remember your apocalypse if you'll remember mine
It will be a holiday of the senses - Author: Eric Gamalinda

#20. Whether or not cutting my hair was the right decision, it empowered me. - Author: Betty Who

#21. Because you brand our tongues
with silence. Because you watch us
in fear, even while we sing. - Author: Eric Gamalinda

#22. Love is a fragile, useless thing. It decomposes easily in the tropic heat. - Author: Eric Gamalinda

#23. Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life. - Author: John Ruskin

#24. Fuck words, nothing spoken
comprehends the defiantly ephemeral.
I take my incompleteness with the rest, an exile
in any language. - Author: Eric Gamalinda

#25. The monsoon came, six months
of infinite rain. The towns I once knew
were wiped clean,
and everyone said it was God
revising his poem. - Author: Eric Gamalinda

#26. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new. - Author: Samuel Johnson

#27. In spaces too small for light
to crawl I'll hide everything I own.
I'll keep you there for safety.
I'll build a shelter for your
fears. I'll be your own
suicide bomber, a
satellite in the
dwindling
orbits, a
mortal
Om. - Author: Eric Gamalinda

#28. It offended him and mocked his wounded soul: the fact that the world didn't die when his heart did. - Author: Eric Gamalinda

#29. I love the excesses of beauty,
there is never enough sunlight
in the world I will live in,
never enough room for love. - Author: Eric Gamalinda

#30. Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and the crisp, fresh odor of unfolding leaves. - Author: Gene Stratton-Porter

#31. Reading books you like can soothe an invisible wound that irritatingly bleeds one's mood. - Author: Angelica Hopes