--- title: "20 Feels Quotes By Augusten Burroughs" description: "20 Feels quotes by Augusten Burroughs. Plus more from Augusten Burroughs and more Feels sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcd/augusten-burroughs-603_feels_i-was-learning-that-if-i-lived-slightly_1791113.png" --- > [I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/i-was-learning-that-if-i-lived-slightly-in-the-future-what-will/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcd/augusten-burroughs-603_feels_i-was-learning-that-if-i-lived-slightly_1791113.png) > [My window fogs and this makes me feel like there is no world outside of the car.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/my-window-fogs-and-this-makes-me-feel-like-there-is-no-world-outside/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ca/augusten-burroughs-603_car_my-window-fogs-and-this-makes-me-feel-li_1225860.png) > [My thoughts seem thick, ketchup stuck in a bottle. Like trying to feel someone's face while wearing goosedown mittens.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/my-thoughts-seem-thick-ketchup-stuck-in-a-bottle-like-trying-to-feel/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/526/augusten-burroughs-603_bottles_my-thoughts-seem-thick-ketchup-stuck-in_61388.png) > [So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/so-that-s-what-i-m-here-to-become-and-suddenly-this-word-fills-me/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2e/augusten-burroughs-603_brands_so-that-s-what-i-m-here-to-become-and-su_2143655.png) > [Acceptance, when it comes, arrives in waves: Listen with your chest. You will feel a pendulum swing within you, favoring one direction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/acceptance-when-it-comes-arrives-in-waves-listen-with-your-chest-you/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/207/augusten-burroughs-603_acceptance_acceptance-when-it-comes-arrives-in-wave_1642613.png) > [New York City is a place where you can lock yourself up in your little studio apartment, and not go outside at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/new-york-city-is-a-place-where-you-can-lock-yourself-up-in-your/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/265/augusten-burroughs-603_apartment_new-york-city-is-a-place-where-you-can-l_2395389.png) > [You have an incredible body." He reaches out to touch my stomach. I feel no pleasure in his compliment or his touch,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/you-have-an-incredible-body-he-reaches-out-to-touch-my-stomach-i-feel/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f06/augusten-burroughs-603_body_you-have-an-incredible-body-he-reaches-o_246168.png) > [I came to think that maybe God was what you believed in because you needed to feel you weren’t alone. Maybe God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/i-came-to-think-that-maybe-god-was-what-you-believed-in-because-you/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d35/augusten-burroughs-603_believed_i-came-to-think-that-maybe-god-was-what_1592487.png) > [I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/i-used-to-feel-so-alone-in-the-city-all-those-gazillions-of-people/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/235/augusten-burroughs-603_cities_i-used-to-feel-so-alone-in-the-city-all_671249.jpg) > [Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/childhood-is-what-ended-me-up-in-the-hospital-and-teetering-on-the/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b41/augusten-burroughs-603_accepting_childhood-is-what-ended-me-up-in-the-hos_1881453.jpg) > [It was like living in a new house. I saw the undersides of tables, walked through the tangle of chair legs. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/it-was-like-living-in-a-new-house-i-saw-the-undersides-of-tables/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f5/augusten-burroughs-603_be-good_it-was-like-living-in-a-new-house-i-saw_2439673.png) > [My instinct was always have your gun in your hand. Especially when you are telling somebody to do something. But, in fact,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/my-instinct-was-always-have-your-gun-in-your-hand-especially-when-you/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efe/augusten-burroughs-603_academy_my-instinct-was-always-have-your-gun-in_382555.png) > [But feelings, no matter how strong or “ugly,” are not a part of who you are. They are the radio stations your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/but-feelings-no-matter-how-strong-or-ugly-are-not-a-part-of-who-you/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6bc/augusten-burroughs-603_admitting_but-feelings-no-matter-how-strong-or-ugl_2166659.jpg) > [Optimism sprouts from the knowledge that you are in control of your own life, not your past and not those around you.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/optimism-sprouts-from-the-knowledge-that-you-are-in-control-of-your/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83a/augusten-burroughs-603_admitting_optimism-sprouts-from-the-knowledge-that_3199307.png) > [In the opening to the Mary Tyler Moore Show Mary's in the supermarket, hurrying through the aisles. She pauses at the meat…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/in-the-opening-to-the-mary-tyler-moore-show-mary-s-in-the-supermarket/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b4/augusten-burroughs-603_carts_in-the-opening-to-the-mary-tyler-moore-s_146590.png) > [No matter what I've written, someone somewhere has come up to me and said, "Me too." The truth can be offensive, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/no-matter-what-i-ve-written-someone-somewhere-has-come-up-to-me-and/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eaf/augusten-burroughs-603_books_no-matter-what-i-ve-written-someone-some_2635472.jpg) > [I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/i-missed-him-so-much-that-i-had-physical-sensations-of-loss-all-over/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c07/augusten-burroughs-603_arms_i-missed-him-so-much-that-i-had-physical_1133603.png) > [When I ate vanilla frosting straight from the can, I could feel God standing right nest to me like a real best…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/when-i-ate-vanilla-frosting-straight-from-the-can-i-could-feel-god/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/220/augusten-burroughs-603_best-friend_when-i-ate-vanilla-frosting-straight-fro_983439.png) > [I feel like they are two different things, and when I write books, they're just books. If they can be movies that's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/i-feel-like-they-are-two-different-things-and-when-i-write-books-they/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89c/augusten-burroughs-603_book_i-feel-like-they-are-two-different-thing_744830.png) > [Maybe you feel pressure to be positive because so many people rely on your good, fake-positive energy? If that's the case, screw…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/maybe-you-feel-pressure-to-be-positive-because-so-many-people-rely-on/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b41/augusten-burroughs-603_being-positive_maybe-you-feel-pressure-to-be-positive-b_2792442.jpg) ## Other authors on Feels ## More by Augusten Burroughs > [There is nothing about myself that I wouldn't reveal or write about. I don't care how horrendous or ridiculous I may appear in person…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/there-is-nothing-about-myself-that-i-wouldn-t-reveal-or-write-about-i/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) > [“We were alone together, we were an us.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/we-were-alone-together-we-were-an-us/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) > [Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/like-every-child-i-adored-her-until-i-formed-a-brain-and-got-to-know/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) > [“You must hang onto the scraps of the bucking moment as if your sanity and life depended on it - because actually they do.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/you-must-hang-onto-the-scraps-of-the-bucking-moment-as-if-your-sanity/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) > [Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/real-optimism-is-not-the-pep-talk-you-give-yourself-it-is-earned/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) > [If you hate your life, you haven't' seen enough of it. If you hate your life, it's because your life is too small and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/if-you-hate-your-life-you-haven-t-seen-enough-of-it-if-you-hate-your/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) > [I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/i-think-writers-tend-to-be-experience-junkies-and-i-think-they-also/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) > [I think part of the reason I'm attracted to Foster is because he's such a mess. I mean, the people I have loved in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/i-think-part-of-the-reason-i-m-attracted-to-foster-is-because-he-s/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) > [“On typical days, (dust) is simply irritating. On Roid Rage days, it made me want to stomp down to the highway, pull drivers out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/on-typical-days-dust-is-simply-irritating-on-roid-rage-days-it-made/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) > [I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/i-m-like-the-guy-who-prepares-your-taxes-or-a-dentist-i-m-very/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) > [“Nothing surprises me now," I tell him. I am stoic. I am Joan of Arc, with liver damage and an unused penis.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/nothing-surprises-me-now-i-tell-him-i-am-stoic-i-am-joan-of-arc-with/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) > [“It's not that I was an outright nitwit of a child.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/it-s-not-that-i-was-an-outright-nitwit-of-a-child/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) > [What I really want is to sit next to someone under an L.L. bean blanket on the beach in the fall and drink coffee…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/what-i-really-want-is-to-sit-next-to-someone-under-an-l-l-bean/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) > [“My worth depended on where exactly the decimal was placed among the zeroes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/my-worth-depended-on-where-exactly-the-decimal-was-placed-among-the/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) > [“Bookman isn't a stable man. He has a lot of problems that run very, very deep." But he was really good at giving head.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/bookman-isn-t-a-stable-man-he-has-a-lot-of-problems-that-run-very/) [Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augusten-burroughs/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/feels/augusten-burroughs/#itemlist", "name": "20 Feels Quotes By Augusten Burroughs", "numberOfItems": 20, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what was going on in the present.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Augusten Burroughs" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/i-was-learning-that-if-i-lived-slightly-in-the-future-what-will/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcd/augusten-burroughs-603_feels_i-was-learning-that-if-i-lived-slightly_1791113.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcd/augusten-burroughs-603_feels_i-was-learning-that-if-i-lived-slightly_1791113.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcd/augusten-burroughs-603_feels_i-was-learning-that-if-i-lived-slightly_1791113.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much…” — Augusten Burroughs", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My window fogs and this makes me feel like there is no world outside of the car.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Augusten Burroughs" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augusten-burroughs/my-window-fogs-and-this-makes-me-feel-like-there-is-no-world-outside/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ca/augusten-burroughs-603_car_my-window-fogs-and-this-makes-me-feel-li_1225860.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ca/augusten-burroughs-603_car_my-window-fogs-and-this-makes-me-feel-li_1225860.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ca/augusten-burroughs-603_car_my-window-fogs-and-this-makes-me-feel-li_1225860.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“My window fogs and this makes me feel like there is no world outside of the car.” — Augusten Burroughs", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My thoughts seem thick, ketchup stuck in a bottle. 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