118 Quotes by David Berman

It would be a tragedy to spend your whole life desperately wanting to be something that you already were all along.

I believe the stars are the headlights of angels driving from heaven to save usto save us...Won't you look at the sky?They're driving from heaven into our eyes. And though final words are so hard to devise, I promise that I'll always remember your pretty eyes.

As a way of getting in touch with my originsevery night I set the alarm clockfor the time I was born so that waking upbecomes a historical reenactment...

As a way of getting in touch with my originsevery night I set the alarm clockfor the time I was born so that waking upbecomes a historical reenactment and the first thing I do

It takes a society to raise a generation.

All the characters on the album are inside me, though none are me. They are sides of me or who I was.

Unless we take care to clear the first principles of knowledge from the incumbrance and delusion of words, we may make infinite reasonings upon them to no purpose. We may deduce consequences, and never be the wiser.

When there’s trouble I don’t like running, but I’m afraid I got more in common with who I was, than who I am becoming.

Somewhere in the future I am remembering today.