We all start out so damn sure, thinking we've got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we'd never leave our bedrooms. Jonathan Tropper More Quotes by Jonathan Tropper More Quotes From Jonathan Tropper Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's. Jonathan Tropper fart pity ive-learned You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it. Jonathan Tropper wise life looks I would have done the same thing I did. I would have put all my energy into loving someone that wasn't you. I would have tried in vain, every day, to not think about you, and what could have been. What should have been. I would have tried to convince myself that there's no such thing as true love, except for the love you yourself make work, even though I know better....The bottom line is I never had any business marrying anyone who wasn't you. Jonathan Tropper should-have love-you thinking I loved her for the way she embraced the unknown, how she opened herself up to every experience. When I was with her, she opened me up, too, stirred my passion and heightened my every sensation. Which was great, until she left me and all my heightened senses to deal with the heartache of losing her. Jonathan Tropper heartache passion way Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you. Jonathan Tropper empowering comfortable Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost. Jonathan Tropper comfort lost giving ...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else. Jonathan Tropper better-than-you realizing ↑ top up position down The fact that I suspect I'm an asshole means I probably am not, because a real asshole doesn't think he's an asshole, does he? Therefore, by realizing that I'm an asshole, I am in fact negating that very realization, am I not? Descartes's Asshole Axiom: I think I am; therefor I'm not one. Jonathan Tropper real mean thinking You can never totally hate someone who sang you to sleep like that, can you? Who calmed you down and eased your fears. You can feel angry and betrayed, but some part of you will always love them for being there on those scary nights, for giving you a place to run to where your nightmares couldn't follow, the one place where you could descend finally into slumber knowing, at least for the time being, that you were completely safe. Jonathan Tropper hate sleep running There are some people out there who don't wait for what come next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen. Jonathan Tropper next waiting people The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person. Jonathan Tropper self hands thinking It's true. somewhere inside us we are all the ages we have ever been. We're the 3 year old who got bit by the dog. We're the 6 year old our mother lost track of at the mall. We're the 10 year old who get tickled till we wet our pants. We're the 13 year old shy kid with zits. We're the 16 year old no one asked to the prom, and so on. We walk around in the bodies of adults until someone presses the right button and summons up one of those kids. Jonathan Tropper dog mother kids If only all our conflicts could be resolved with a few grunts and a smack in the ass. Jonathan Tropper grunt ass conflict Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations. Jonathan Tropper symphony loneliness play The future just isn't what it used to be Jonathan Tropper used-to-be used At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started. Jonathan Tropper happy-endings There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time, and the only thing you can count on is that there's not a thing you can do about it. Jonathan Tropper happy-day dying real We are all smiling in the picture, three brothers having a grand old time just playing around in the living room, no agendas, no buried resentments or permanent scars. Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up. Jonathan Tropper growing-up brother rooms We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either. Jonathan Tropper hate love people Silver is forty-four years old, if you can believe it, out of shape, and depressed—although he doesn’t know if you call it depression when you have good reason to be; maybe then you’re simply sad, or lonely, or just painfully aware, on a daily basis, of all the things you can never get back. Jonathan Tropper lonely believe years
