All Denis Johnson Quotes
- Love and violence-not to conquer one with the other but to live with both, that's what I've learned. Each pulling me a different way. If… Both
- This life is but the childhood of our immortality. Childhood
- The traveling salesmen fed me pills that made the lining of my veins feel scraped out, my jaw ached... I knew every raindrop by its… Accident
- Will you believe me when I tell you there was kindness in his heart? His left hand didn't know what his right hand was doing.… Been
- I'll never forget you. Your husband will beat you with an extension cord and the bus will pull away leaving you standing there in tears,… Away Leaving
- When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something… Alcohol
- In my writing, I want to be laid bare as a human being. Bare
- I have the belief in boldness. What I generally lack is the boldness itself. Because boldness doesn't feel bold. It feels scared not brave. Belief
- When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times from… Across
- And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person’s life on this earth. I don’t mean that we all end up dead,… All
- Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them. Ability
- We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves. Always Tell
- Everybody’s got a mean side. Just don’t feed it till it grows. Don T
- All his life Robert Grainier would remember vividly the burned valley at sundown, the most dreamlike business he’d ever witnessed waking—the brilliant pastels of the… All
- It was only when you left it alone that a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had yourself… Alone
- With each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me. Broke
- We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that Chests
- There was a part of her she hadn’t yet allowed to be born because it was too beautiful for this place Allowed
- The first kiss plummeted him down a hole and popped him out into a world he thought he could get along in—as if he’d been… Along
- What could be lonelier than trying to communicate? Communicate