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Alaska Young Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“Jesus, I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re gonna do. I’m just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.”
— Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Taking Chances, Do It, Going For It, Adventurous
“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”
— Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Thoughts, Human Connection, Not Alone, Feelings
“There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.”
— Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Death, Pain, Losing Life, Circle Of Life
“But there was so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on.”
— Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Life, Living life, Simple Things, Simple Pleasures, Living, Existing, To Do, My Favorites
“That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape--the world or the end of it?”
— Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: humanity, Being human, Understanding Life, Trying To Understand, Trying To Understand Death, Death & Life, Death, Suffering
“Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”
— Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Death, Dying Young, Asking Questions, Seeking Answers, Great Perhaps, Questioning Life, Trying To Understand, Life Questionining
“Those awful things are survivable because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.”
— Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: surviving, Moving On, Overcoming Obstacles, Overcoming, strength
“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
— Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Reading, Book Worm, Reader, Book Lover, My Favorites
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