Shalom Auslander famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Roads are no place for naive chickens dreaming of nirvana.
-- Shalom Auslander

#Dream #Chickens
It couldn't be an all-bad world, could it, not with birds who warble and call? Maybe that was the secret - to find the few things that made life just a fraction better, and to focus on those. Bird warbles. Peach fuzz. Puppies barking as if they're full grown dogs. Nothing great, certainly nothing to justify the rest of it, but enough to keep you going.
-- Shalom Auslander

#Dog #Bird #Focus
My point is that death is more tragic than life, than any life, because every life has hope of some kind.
-- Shalom Auslander

#Kind #Tragic #Having Hope
Kugel was a firm believer that death was not always a bad thing - that life often reached such levels of crapitude that dying was preferable to living.
-- Shalom Auslander

#Dying #Levels #Believer
Vans are the vehicles of murderers. Serial Killers. Rapists. Thieves. Nothing good ever happens in a van. Police should be allowed to arrest van drivers without cause. The van is the cause, asshole.
-- Shalom Auslander

#Police #Serial Killer #Killers
...the greatest source of misery in the world, the greatest cause of anguish and hatred and sadness and death, was neither disease nor race nor religion. It was hope.
-- Shalom Auslander

#Sadness #Race #Hatred
Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or anomalies; they are perfectly rational responses to the myriad avoidable disappointments that begin in a thoroughly irrational hope.
-- Shalom Auslander

#Disappointment #Dysfunction #Anomalies
Write something dangerous. Say something you shouldnâ€™t. Blow something up. But well.
-- Shalom Auslander

#Writing #Blow #Dangerous
Written with passion, honesty, humor, and a stubborn, rebellious optimism, Dear Marcus is like nothing I've ever read. When a bullet in the back told Jerry McGill not to go on, Jerry went on-smiling.
-- Shalom Auslander

#Honesty #Passion #Optimism
His intelligence only exacerbated the guilt Kugel felt for bringing him into the world. It was one thing to have condemned a child to life, that was criminal enough, but life was a sentence more easily served by fools.
-- Shalom Auslander

#Children #Guilt #World
Expecting hell, we're ill prepared for heaven.
-- Shalom Auslander

#Heaven #Hell #Expecting

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