Quotes by David Rakoff

David Rakoff

New York is breaking my heart. I’ve often said that it’s like having a really interesting boyfriend suddenly becoming really, really into wine, and having to have endless conversations about it.

Heart

New York

Wine

Not being funny doesn’t make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.

Doe

Persons

Sense Of Humor

One of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.

Able

Mind

Reaching

People are really trying their best. Just like being happy and sad, you will find yourself on both sides of the equation many times over your lifetime, either saying or hearing the wrong thing. Let’s all give each other a pass, shall we?

Forgiveness

Giving

People

Simplicity, it seems, has always been wasted on those who simply cannot appreciate it

Appreciate

Inspiration

Simplicity

The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous task of tolerating oneself long enough to push something out.

Art

Lonely

Opposites

There are many things in this world that are an outrage, to be sure, but death at our current life expectancy doesn’t strike me as one of them. Maybe I sound like some Victorian who felt that forty years ought to be enough for any man, but one of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.

Men

Mind

Years

There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.

Cleansing

Reassuring

Sadness

There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it’s really true: I should have stayed home.

Home

Numbers

Regret

There’s nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

Optimism

Optimistic

Thinking

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Able

Age

Altruism

Answers

Appreciate

Art

Beautiful

Betrayal

Book

Challenges

Children

Choices

Cities

Cleansing

Clouds

Conscious

Contact

Doe

Dream

Easier

Father

Flipped

Forgiveness

Forgiving

Fun

Future

Generosity

Giving

Glimpse

Groceries

Guarantees That

Hate

Heart

Home

Identity

Innate

Insight

Inspiration

Kissing

Littles

Lonely

Looks

Love Is

Lucky

Mean

Memories

Men

Might

Mind

New York

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Quotes by David Rakoff

David Rakoff

New York is breaking my heart. I’ve often said that it’s like having a really interesting boyfriend suddenly becoming really, really into wine, and having to have endless conversations about it.

Not being funny doesn’t make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.

One of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.

People are really trying their best. Just like being happy and sad, you will find yourself on both sides of the equation many times over your lifetime, either saying or hearing the wrong thing. Let’s all give each other a pass, shall we?

Simplicity, it seems, has always been wasted on those who simply cannot appreciate it

The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous task of tolerating oneself long enough to push something out.

There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.

There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it’s really true: I should have stayed home.

There’s nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

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