Luke Davies Quotes

#1. From time to time it has struck me that as a writer, I've somehow managed to live my life as I had long ago dreamt of doing, based on the Tintin paradigm: on my toes, travelling, senses attentuated, everything just adventure and exploration, curiosity and problem-solving.

Luke Davies

#2. You've had so much strife but you're always happy. How do you do it?" "I choose to,

M.L. Stedman

#3. The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So free of bitterness and so empty of resentment.

Luke Davies

#4. One ventures, commits one's self, and if readers are not pleased, one can perhaps please one's self and earn that slender right to persevere.

Marianne Moore

#5. Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it.

Luke Davies

#6. You're beautiful, but you're somewhere else. That's okay. I can handle that. But we won't continue as friends, not just now. I like you as a lover, not a friend.

Luke Davies

#7. Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.

Christopher McDougall

#8. It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding us of the deep architectonic forms of space and thought.

Luke Davies

#9. If we are to pray well, we too must discover the Lord to whom we speak, and if we use the Psalms in our prayer we will stand a better chance of sharing in the discovery which lies hidden in their words for all generations. For God has willed to make Himself known to us in the mystery of the Psalms.

Thomas Merton

#10. The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift.

Luke Davies

#11. When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have to pretend that people don't write books. That omniscient third-person narration isn't the only way to do it. Once you're writing in the first person, then the narrator is a writer.

Paul Auster

#12. That's all that faith is, the knowledge that the greater thing is with you. That's all the faith you need. The knowledge that you are not the greater thing.

Luke Davies

#13. Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.

Luke Davies

#14. I learnt too late that what is most important to us is always most precious at the moment it occurs, and it is precious in its absolute immediacy and not as some vague confirmation of future directions; since the only certain fact, aside from death, is the flimsiness of everything.

Luke Davies

#15. Voice work is the best - no need to dress up, no audience, no pressure, nobody's judging you.

Kym Whitley

#16. Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly
off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.

Luke Davies

#17. I have been on TV quite a few times as a poker player.

Jerry Buss

#18. Not only good to be alive, but nice to come with a stranger. Intimacy? For now I want nothing of it. I am simply trying to emerge from the violent unnecessariness of death.

Luke Davies

#19. And I come to realise that all my small todays, the way I act, will lead into my tomorrows.

Luke Davies

#20. I'm hurling all the little joys against the greater sadness. The sadness is a giant weight. It presses down. Its mean: What's the point?

Luke Davies

#21. I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act.
We will breathe into each other the high mountain tales, where the snows come from, where the waters begin.
-In the yellow time of pollen

Luke Davies

#22. What passes relentlessly through the years is blood, and time; all the bitterness or warmth along the way is almost incidental. Even blood gets forgotten eventually, bleached into myth which are bleached of all colour into ashes of myth.

Luke Davies

#23. Was it possible to feel love with an empty mind? For if the mind was empty, then it was empty of love too.

Luke Davies

#24. In the presence of their love I sensed my lonliness, and I understood for a moment, clearly, that deep and basic human desire for companionship at depth.

Luke Davies

#25. If I could find someone to blame, perhaps I could get angry. Anything would be better than this sadness, this sense of regret for events that were never mine.

Luke Davies

#26. Drought brings out the worst in us and it's easy to hate your fellow human beings.

Luke Davies

#27. A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#28. If time stood still, and we could choose the time, the best time, then love without pain would be all I know.

Luke Davies

#29. Love could be fractured and serve different purposes, and that intense love could be divided, between people just as easily as between moments of time.

Luke Davies

#30. I'm always looking at the next thing. I'm too curious to look back ... it's very hard to be unhappy when you're curious and grateful. You're busy. You don't have time to be unhappy. My biggest talent is I know who is more talented than I am. I find them and I go to them, and I learn.

Liza Minnelli

#31. Loss is not as bad as wanting more.

Lao-Tzu

#32. When you think you are in love, you don't want to know about the things that could end it.

Luke Davies

#33. And there is nothing more terrifying than realizing the one who knows you best loves you least.

Caroline Kepnes

#34. She told herself that life is short. This didn't mean that nothing mattered, only that when strange things happened there was often no turning back.

Luke Davies

#35. When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't ...

Luke Davies

#36. Very quickly I begin to understand the selfishness of my love, the inappropriateness of my relationships, when I realise that every time I fuck it feels as if I am wrestling with demons.

Luke Davies

#37. When I listen to my own records, I always think, 'Oh, I could have sung that so much better.' But you have to finish something and turn it in. If I didn't have folks who say, 'Come on, we need the record now,' I probably would never finish one.

Patty Loveless

#38. Imperceptibly, more time passes when I'm not remembering our every moment together, not recreating our every conversation, re-imagining our love-making. It is immeasurably sad.

Luke Davies