Quotes by Charles Yu

Charles Yu

At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever.

Being True

Forever

Tomorrow

Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.

Nice

Simple

Suffering

Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it.

Enjoy

Littles

Want

For the past several years, I have gone to sleep every night in this same little pocket, the most uneventful piece of time I could find. Same exact thing every night, night after night. Total silence. Absolutely nothing. That’s why I chose it. I know for a fact nothing bad can happen to me in here.

Night

Past

Sleep

How do you convince someone to change, to stop being afraid of himself? How do you convince yourself not to be so scared all the time?

Being Afraid

Convince

Scared

I am transcribing a book that I have, in a sense, not yet written, and in another sense, have always written, and in another sense, am currently writing, and in another sense, am always writing, and in another sense, will never write.

Book

Transcribing

Writing

I had forgotten: this is what it feels like to live in time. The lurching forward, the sensation of falling of a cliff into darkness, and then landing abruptly, surprised, confused, and then starting the whole process again in the next moment, doing that over and over again, falling into each instant of time and then climbing back up only to repeat the process.

Climbing

Confused

Fall

I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.

Ask Me

Asks

People

If I could be half the person my dog is, I’d be twice the human I am.

Dog

Half

Humans

It’s like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.

Powerful

Technology

Want

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Ask Me

Asks

Being Afraid

Being True

Book

Choices

Climbing

Complicated

Confused

Convince

Couple

Different

Dog

Dollars

Eight

Ends

Enjoy

Fall

Feet

Forever

Hair

Half

Heart

Humans

I Am Pretty

Know How

Littles

Lying

Memories

Mirrors

Moving

Nice

Night

Pain

Past

People

Pieces

Powerful

Reflection

Rolling

Running

Scared

Simple

Sleep

Stories

Suffering

Suicide

Technology

Thinking

Three

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Quotes by Charles Yu

Charles Yu

At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever.

Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.

Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it.

How do you convince someone to change, to stop being afraid of himself? How do you convince yourself not to be so scared all the time?

I am transcribing a book that I have, in a sense, not yet written, and in another sense, have always written, and in another sense, am currently writing, and in another sense, am always writing, and in another sense, will never write.

I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.

If I could be half the person my dog is, I’d be twice the human I am.

It’s like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.

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