Life Quotes by Augusten Burroughs

Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal.

— Augusten Burroughs

“I was not living but actively dying.”

— Augusten Burroughs

“Life is too huge for you to possibly hate.”

— Augusten Burroughs

Writing has enriched my life in ways I never imaged.

— Augusten Burroughs

“Now I can add prostitute to my list of life's accomplishments.”

— Augusten Burroughs

“My life came complete with a factory-installed biological brother seven years my senior. ”

— Augusten Burroughs

Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.

— Augusten Burroughs

I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered…

— Augusten Burroughs

“[My brother] shaped my young life. First, he taught me how to walk. Then, armed with sticks and dead snakes, he chased…

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“You must hang onto the scraps of the bucking moment as if your sanity and life depended on it - because actually…

— Augusten Burroughs

Miracles do happen. You must believe this. No matter what else you believe about life, you must believe in miracles.

— Augusten Burroughs

The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths.

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There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life…

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So we can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography - and we can also be excited…

— Augusten Burroughs

I don't worry about anything in the Internet age. I have been online since I was aware of it: 1985 in San…

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“we were particles that came together to form into star after star after star until almost forever passed, and instead of a…

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Any damage that's been done, you have to fix yourself because it needs fixing and there is nobody else to do the…

— Augusten Burroughs

Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and…

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The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study…

— Augusten Burroughs

There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting…

— Augusten Burroughs

In the same way that a tornado rips the roof off a double-wide trailer, leaving the occupants dazed and staring at the…

— Augusten Burroughs

“This is what I'm saying; you hate your life. But you don't know what life is. Life is too huge for you…

— Augusten Burroughs

“That may be true," I thought, "But they don't have digital cable or Internet access, so really what's the point of being…

— Augusten Burroughs

I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was a…

— Augusten Burroughs

“Having one's mother or father or past abuser admit to their crimes or even apologize for them changes nothing--certainly not what they…

— Augusten Burroughs

“All improvements, transformations, achievements, liberations; everything you want to change about yourself and your life; everything you want to make happen, any…

— Augusten Burroughs

The most mortifying fact of my life is something that happened when I was fourteen and I have never admitted to anyone:…

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I've overcome a lot - sexual abuse, death of a loved one, bad parents and experienced life. My nature is such I…

— Augusten Burroughs

“And then just as suddenly, I felt absolutely nothing. It was like a door quickly opened, showing me what horrible feelings I…

— Augusten Burroughs

“I think…Have I given up anything by living with another person? Has there been a trade-off? Always, there is a trade-off. And…

— Augusten Burroughs

“I knew I had an ugly life. I knew I was lonely and I was scared. I thought something might be wrong…

— Augusten Burroughs

“It may seem to you that your life is over now. Your future without the person you love is no future at…

— Augusten Burroughs

“Miracles do happen. You must believe this. No matter what else you believe about life, you must believe in miracles. Because we…

— Augusten Burroughs

“When you have a blueprint for what happiness is, lay it over your life and see what you need to change so…

— Augusten Burroughs

Nothing made sense to me anymore. I knew I was young, I knew I was small. But I was worried that I…

— Augusten Burroughs

Decisions are beautiful. They are the evidence of thought and care. Decisions are the polishing cloths of life.

— Augusten Burroughs

“What little factual information I absorbed in my life was gleaned from lectures the Professor gave to Gilligan. For”

— 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…

— Augusten Burroughs

“I didn't begin life hating my grandmother. Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know…

— Augusten Burroughs

“Truth is accuracy. Without accuracy, you can't expect to manifest large, specific changes in your life.”

— Augusten Burroughs