1. People
    2.  › 
  2. Richard Brautigan
Richard Brautigan photo

Richard Brautigan Quotes

Total quotes: 10
“I'm haunted by all
the space that I
will live without
you.”
— Richard Brautigan, via All Poetry
Tagged: Being Alone, Anxiety, Paranoia
“There’s nothing you’re ever going to say that’s going to make anybody happy when they’re feeling shitty about losing somebody that they love.”
— Richard Brautigan, Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away
Tagged: Finding The Right Words, When Your Heart Is Broken, Loss
“Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there’s nothing there, how can anything go wrong?”
— Richard Brautigan, Recalling Richard Brautigan, through a daughter's pain
Tagged: Perfection, Space, Discovery, Ideology, Belief
“I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.”
— Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America
Tagged: Coffee, Books
“I talked a good hello but she talked an even better good-bye.”
— Richard Brautigan, California Living
Tagged: Goodbyes
“Reduce intellectual and emotional noise
until you arrive at the silence of yourself,
and listen to it.”
— Richard Brautigan, Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar
Tagged: Zen, Inner Peace, Important, Silence, Self-Discovery
“When you take your pill
it's like a mine disaster.
I think of all the people
lost inside you.”
— Richard Brautigan, Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar
Tagged: Mental Illness, BPD
“You look like a dream I’ve never had before.”
— Richard Brautigan, The Abortion
Tagged: Dream, daydream, Poetic
“His eyes were wet wounded rugs.”
— Richard Brautigan, Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away
Tagged: Descriptions of Crying, Tears
“I will be very careful the next time I fall in love, she told herself. Also, she had made a promise to herself that she intended on keeping. She was never going to go out with another writer: no matter how charming, sensitive, inventive or fun they could be. They weren’t worth it in the long run. They were emotionally too expensive and the upkeep was complicated. They were like having a vacuum cleaner around the house that broke all the time and only Einstein could fix it. She wanted her next lover to be a broom.”
— Richard Brautigan, Sombrero Fallout
Tagged: Fall in love, Emoitons, Next
loading next page...