Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking. — Augusten Burroughs Confidence Copy Share Image
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 Enough Copy Share Image
When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all. — Augusten Burroughs Health Copy Share Image
My brother was born without taste or the desire to be professionally lit. — Augusten Burroughs Born Copy Share Image
The dark side of blogging is, of course, people can be (and are) just savage and uncivilized, deeply cruel and fully unaccountable. — Augusten Burroughs Blogging Copy Share Image
Everybody in recovery smokes. If you don't like smoking, don't even bother trying to get sober. Just stay drunk. — Augusten Burroughs Bother Copy Share Image
“How could something have no end, and if it had no end exactly where did it leave us?” — Augusten Burroughs Exactly Copy Share Image
“The events of the past cannot be fully understood when you are the only element of the past actively engaged in reliving… — Augusten Burroughs Past Copy Share Image
The truth about not having everything you need, not being fully equipped or qualified or allowed is that these limits are the… — Augusten Burroughs Creative Copy Share Image
Because here is the truth: If you want to have a chance at meeting somebody with whom you are genuinely compatible, never… — Augusten Burroughs Chance Copy Share Image
“I nodded again, but I knew I would not grow up to drive a bulldozer. It would be awful to be dirty… — Augusten Burroughs Aspirations Copy Share Image
“When I was ten years old, I realized I'd been kidnapped as a toddler. Of course, I would have to have been… — Augusten Burroughs Children Copy Share Image
I realized I could really become hooked on these happy pills. They gave me a glorious feeling of general well-being and didn't… — Augusten Burroughs Alcohol Copy Share Image
Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and… — Augusten Burroughs Being nice Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a… — Augusten Burroughs Bird Copy Share Image
I sit there and think how it isn't fair that I can't drink at all, even a little. I realize I have… — Augusten Burroughs Drink Copy Share Image
I think part of the reason I'm attracted to Foster is because he's such a mess. I mean, the people I have… — Augusten Burroughs Attracted Copy Share Image
If you believe suicide will bring you peace, or at the very least just an end to everything you hate- you are… — Augusten Burroughs Able Copy Share Image
“One of the things I liked about her [Dorothy] was that she had long fingernails that she would carefully manicure and paint… — Augusten Burroughs Nails Bright Copy Share Image
No matter how huge your loss, as long as you remain engaged with your life, the best days of your life may… — Augusten Burroughs Best day Copy Share Image
Are you one of those people who says on a first date, 'I'm really not in a hurry to meet somebody, I… — Augusten Burroughs Date Copy Share Image
As a young child I had Santa and Jesus all mixed up. I could identify Coke or Pepsi with just one sip,… — Augusten Burroughs Angry Copy Share Image
Acceptance, when it comes, arrives in waves: Listen with your chest. You will feel a pendulum swing within you, favoring one direction… — Augusten Burroughs Acceptance Copy Share Image
“If my mother was odd enough to crave a bubble bath at three in the morning, Dorothy was inventive enough to suggest… — Augusten Burroughs Broken glass Copy Share Image
But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair. — Augusten Burroughs Chairs Copy Share Image
“We tried to everything right, now we were forced to do everything wrong and it was working.” — Augusten Burroughs Right now Copy Share Image
“He likes people because he likes to share in conversations. I like people when they have large checks for me.” — Augusten Burroughs Communication Copy Share Image
“Bookman isn't a stable man. He has a lot of problems that run very, very deep." But he was really good at… — Augusten Burroughs Bookman Copy Share Image
“...I don't think it's any more deceptive than wearing four-inch come-fuck-me pumps when one has no intention of ever fucking anybody.” — Augusten Burroughs Deceptive Copy Share Image
I once read about a guy who lost his arms in a fire. The nurse took pity on him and gave him… — Augusten Burroughs Arms Copy Share Image
“What little factual information I absorbed in my life was gleaned from lectures the Professor gave to Gilligan. For” — Augusten Burroughs Life Copy Share Image
Decisions are beautiful. They are the evidence of thought and care. Decisions are the polishing cloths of life. — Augusten Burroughs Beautiful Copy Share Image
I don't really think of my blog as a real blog. It's a lame blog. It's more like my when-the-mood-strikes update, or… — Augusten Burroughs Blogs Copy Share Image
All of us are richer and more fascinating and more complex than we can ever know. — Augusten Burroughs Money Copy Share Image
It turned out I had always been a smoker. I just hadn't had any cigarettes. — Augusten Burroughs Cigarette Copy Share Image
You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind. — Augusten Burroughs Mind Copy Share Image
“My worth depended on where exactly the decimal was placed among the zeroes.” — Augusten Burroughs Money Copy Share Image
“No wonder I had found that woman so offensive. Sometimes things feel that bad. Sometimes you just feel like shit.” — Augusten Burroughs Offensive Copy Share Image
“And that was one thing I didn't want: NO CASUAL SEX. I thought it was disgusting, the idea of just screwing around… — Augusten Burroughs Casual Copy Share Image
“Give me down. And give me the Polaroids of the fifty geese that had to die in the process.” — Augusten Burroughs Geese Copy Share Image
![“One of the things I liked about her [Dorothy] was that she had long fingernails that she would carefully manicure and paint to fit her mood. If she were in a happy mood, her nails would be bright red. If she were feeling like she wanted to eviscerate her mother she would paint her nails burgundy.” quote by Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f86/augusten-burroughs-603_quote_one-of-the-things-i-liked-about-her-doro_1375921.jpg)
