Famous Quotes by Brock Clarke

“After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it couldn't be worse than your dream life. ”

Maybe the problem with love is that it’s about finding a way to be happy with someone who’s not you.

Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.

No one likes a self-help book that’s written in second-person. Especially if it’s about how to improve your love life.

Sometimes, when the world feels too small, it’s just because you haven’t gone far enough into it yet.

There are worse things than being afraid of the future. One of them is being afraid of the present.

I wonder if there’s a part of life that isn’t simply a trial to see if we can make it through unscathed.

The question isn’t whether you’re going to fail, it’s what you’re going to do when you do.

Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap.

There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail—the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions.

The most important thing about making a decision is knowing that you will be able to make another decision later.

I suppose this is the real secret of happiness: figuring out what to do with your own time.

One of the cruelest things we can do to someone is to let them make decisions for us.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

You know you’ve made a real friend when they can make you feel embarrassed without ever saying a word.

No one tells you when you become an adult that you’re going to have to try to make peace with everyone, even the people who really don’t care about you.

The most successful people I know are not always the happiest, but they are always the most determined.

The hardest part about telling the truth is remembering which lies you told.

When I was a boy, I would read those postcards and know exactly why my father was doing what he was doing: he was taking a stab at greatness, that is, if greatness is simply another word for doing something different from what you were already doing.

The hardest part about being an adult is realizing that the answers to all your problems were never as simple as you wanted them to be.

It’s easy to forget how powerful we are, until the time comes when we need to act.

I wonder if, when we look back on our lives, we’ll be able to see how much we really did love the people we thought we loved.