Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Kilroy J. Oldster

Quote by Kilroy J. Oldster

“Writing about the self to spur intellectual growth or attain a teardrop of emotional salvation is akin to a fish attempting to construct a net that will capture itself.”

Quote by Kilroy J. Oldster

Book:Dead Toad Scrolls
Create image

Work

Dead Toad Scrolls

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Kilroy J. Oldster

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Kilroy J. Oldster. more

You May Also Like

“One of the salient facts of a self is that a person is constantly undergoing a series of actions in the immediacy of time that they must later reflect upon and synthesize new experiences, thoughts, feelings, and mental impression along with their latent memories into a collaborative sense of being.”

Life LessonsMeditationReflectionExperienceSelf DiscoveryLife Lessons QuotesExperience QuotesReflectiveSelf KnowingReflection On LifeReflective Mind
Book:Dead Toad Scrolls
Create image

“Our remembered experiences and our present day hopes and desires form the spine of each person’s storybook. Knowledge of life and death are traceable facts that shape the contours of each person’s storyboard. Other truths gleaned from living brilliantly fill the pages of each person’s ongoing anthology.”

IdentityMemoirSelf KnowledgeMemoir WritingStory Of My LifeSelf IdentitySelf KnowingPersonal IdentitySelf Knowledge Quotes
Book:Dead Toad Scrolls
Create image

“We hurt one another. We go through life dressing up in new clothes and covering up our true motives. We meet up lightly, we drink rosé wine, and then we give each other pain. We don't want to! What we want to do, what one really wants to do is put out one's hands—like some dancer, in a trance, just put out one's hands—and touch all the people and tell them: I'm sorry. I love you. Thank you for your e-mail. Thank you for coming to see me. Thank you. But we can't. We can't. On the little life raft of Mark only one other person could fit. Just one! And so, thwarted, we inflict pain. That’s what we do. We do not keep each other company. We do not send each other cute text messages. Or, rather, when we do these things, we do them merely to postpone the moment when we'll push these people off, and beat forward, beat forward on our little raft, alone.”

LifeRelationshipsHurtAlone
Book:All the Sad Young Literary Men
Create image