24 Quotes by David Wojnarowicz

Sometimes I come to hate people because they can’t see where I am. I’ve gone empty, completely empty and all they see is the visual form; my arms and legs, my face, my height and posture, the sounds that come from my throat.

Hell is a place on earth. Heaven is a place in your head.

It’s just a real gentle moment. I’m here by myself and I don’t mind. I kind of wish it could just stay like this for maybe a few years, or I just never moved out of this spot. I could just watch the light stay like this. And maybe somebody coming along and just putting their arms around me for a few minutes.

It is exhausting living in a population where people don’t speak up if what they witness doesn’t directly threaten them.

I’ll never shake the hand of someone I might be fighting against in wartime.

If silence equals death, then art equals language equals life.” – David Wojnarowicz.