Quotes From "The End Of The World As We Know It: Scenes From A Life" By Robert Goolrick

If you don't receive love from the ones who are...
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If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it. Robert Goolrick
I know that it's easier to look at death than...
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I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible. Robert Goolrick
Their love for me was both a myth and a...
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Their love for me was both a myth and a torture and so I wrecked everything. I hurt them, and I left them hurting. Robert Goolrick
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I would give anything, anything, to be the man to whom this has not happened. I can not accommodate myself to it. In a lifetime of trying, I can not accommodate myself to it. And now I will have to be that person forever. Robert Goolrick
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It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away. It is the sweetness that makes us want to reach out and touch the soft skin of another person. And it is the grace that comes to us, undeserving though we may be. Robert Goolrick
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There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us. Robert Goolrick
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I wasn't safe. I wasn't permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to earth and tries to pass as human. The affections of my friends meant nothing to me, directed, as they were, toward a person who wasn't there. There was nobody home. Robert Goolrick
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I think kissing is what separates us from the animals and makes us divine. Robert Goolrick