75 Quotes by Iain Reid

I’m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It dominates. There’s not much I can do about it. Trust me. It doesn’t go away. It’s there whether I like it or not. It’s there when I eat. When I go to bed. It’s there when I sleep. It’s there when I wake up. It’s always there. Always.

Experience trumps age,′ he said. ‘We have to find ways to experience because that’s how we learn, that’s how we know.

People talk about the ability to endure. To endure anything and everything, to keep going, to be strong. But you can do that only if you’re not alone. That’s always the infrastructure life’s built on. A closeness with others. Alone it all becomes a struggle of mere endurance.

Habitual, comfortable activity is the worst kind of prison, because the bars are concealed. You can never learn anything that way.

Pretty much all memory is fiction and heavily edited.

Why do people stay together”? They stay together because it’s expected, because it’s what they know. They try to make it work, to endure it, and end up living under some kind of spiritual anesthetic. They go on, but they are numb. There is nothing worse than to live your life this way. Detached, but abiding. It’s immoral.

Are small, critical actions enough? Small gestures make us feel good – about ourselves, about others. Small things connect us. They feel like everything. A lot depends on them. It’s not unlike religion and God. We believe in certain constructs that help us understand life. Not only to understand it, but as a means of providing comfort.

There was no dependency. Dependency equates to seriousness.

That’s the thing. Part of everything will always be forgettable. No matter how good or remarkable it is. It literally has to be. To be.