Quote by Tim Kreider Download Open image ““We want to be hurt, astonished, reminded we’re alive.”” — Tim Kreider ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Pain may well remind us that we are alive, but love reminds us why we are alive.” — Trystan Owain Hughes Copy Share Image
“Remember, hurting is feeling and feeling is living, and isn’t it good to be alive?” — K. Bromberg Copy Share Image
“Your pain and struggles only serve to remind you that you are alive.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Pain reminds us that we are alive and breathing, that we still have the strength within to fight” — George Mercado Copy Share Image
“We the living are to blame for the painfulness of being dead.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Mistakes remind me that I'm still human. Pain reminds me that I'm still alive. Trying reminds me that there's still hope.” — Raymond D. Longoria Jr Copy Share Image
“Because the essence of creativity is fucking around; art is that which is done for the hell of it.” — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the reason we so often experience happiness only in hindsight, and that chasing it is such a fool’s errand, is that happiness isn’t a goal in itself but is only an aftereffect. It’s the consequence of having lived in the way that we’re supposed to — by which I don’t mean ethically correctly so much as just consciously, fully… — Tim Kreider Copy Share
“The same thing that makes friendship so valuable is what makes it so tenuous: it is purely voluntary. You enter into it freely, without… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
“It’s always a sad revelation when a good friend acquires a girlfriend or a husband and disappears. You realize that, for them, your friendship… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
“When somebody tells us something that would be disturbing or inconvenient for us to believe, we reflexively scrutinize that” — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
“Biblical, Talmudic, or Koranic literalists remind me of children wrinkling their noses at Belon oysters and asking for more Chef Boy-E-Dee. They want the world to be as simple as they are.” — Tim Kreider Copy Share
“It’s easy to demonstrate how progressive and open-minded and loyal you are when it costs you nothing.” — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
“Most of us liberals are so worried that we might secretly be racists that we’re convinced this means we cannot really be racists.)” — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
“What someone’s lies reveal about them (aspirations to being an accomplished writer, fantasies of an exotic history and a cosmopolitan family) are always sadder than the fact of the lies themselves. These inventions illuminate the negative spaces of someone’s self-image, their vanity and insecurities and most childish wishes, as we can infer from warped starlight the presence of a far… — Tim Kreider Copy Share
“I've demonstrated an impressive resilience in the face of valuable life lessons, and the main thing I seem to have learned from this one… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
