Authors

Augusten Burroughs Quotes

Best Quotes by Augusten Burroughs (Top 10)

  1. I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
  2. Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.
  3. I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.
  4. Red hair is great. It's rare, and therefore superior.
  5. You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.
  6. Some damage is too severe, some harm endures. And what you have to do is accept it. And by accept it I mean, don’t be the paralyzed person in the bed who is waiting to walk again. Realize, it’s never gonna happen. And find some other way to get around –swing from a vine, get a Mad Max wheelchair. Anything but…wait.
  7. When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.
  8. Are you one of those people who says on a first date, 'I'm really not in a hurry to meet somebody, I figure if it happens, it happens'? Because those are the most desperate people of all. I'm just saying this so that if you are this person, you aren't hiding it from anybody. There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.
  9. The past does not haunt us. We haunt the past. We allow our minds to focus in that direction. We open memories and examine them. We reexperience emotions we felt during the painful events we experienced because we are recalling them in as much detail as we can.
  10. This is how you survive the unsurvivable, this is how you lose that which you cannot bear to lose, this is how you reinvent yourself, overcome your abusers, fulfill your ambitions and meet the love of your life: by following what is true, no matter where it leads you.

More Augusten Burroughs Quotes