Afterlife Quote by Adelbert von Chamisso

I was in handcuffs. I was under arrest. I remember there was this old lady looking at me, and I could tell she felt…

— Mike Tyson

I pulled the burden from off my back and tossed it into the wind. And stretched my arms toward the sky and let my…

— Avril Lavigne

I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite fixed to…

— Amanda Lindhout

I felt like it was inevitable that I was going to fail in life and die young. So I was frantically scrambling to document…

— Steve-O

I once locked my keys out of my car. I had to break out of my car with a coat hanger.

— Steven Wright

The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the…

— William Christopher Handy

It certainly was an important moment for me, that realization that I was not going to get what I wanted. It was very freeing.…

— Alison Bechdel

What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves into the pattern of my own life…

— Henry Miller

I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I fell empty like a plastic bag caught in the wind, I just wish someone would catch me and hold on to me.

— Anonymous

My whole life, nothing was handed to me. I had to go out in the world and get it.

— Paulie Malignaggi

I was looking for someplace to store all the things I was feeling - the friction, the contradictions, the unmerciful truth - but my…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo