60 Quotes by Justin Wetch

We are each on our own quests To find meaning in our livesBut the meaning we seekIs only a reflectionOf everything we have lost before.

Like a handprint in cementAn indelible mark has been leftMy identity has been bentAt the point where your fingers pressed.Some people leave their marksAll over your identity;Some leave beautiful artAnd others graffiti obscenities.

I don’t want safety or guarantees—I want a life worth living.I want to jump off a skyscraperAnd fashion a parachute on the way downOut of my fears and trepidationsBecause sometimes survivalIsn’t the most important thingAnd survivingIsn’t the same as living.

I remember sitting in bed, as a childlooking up at the ceilingI couldn’t sleep, of course,And so set about to thinkingI wondered, what are dreams made of?Are they stardust and galaxies?Are they the tendrils of existenceReaching inwards from eternity?

What is it about growing olderThat bites venomously Into the neck of hope?

Under a night’s skyFilled with a hundred billion starsIs it so crazy to believeOur paths were destined to cross?

We talk so much yet we have nothing to say.

It is such a pity how some peopleAre dead long before their hearts stop beating.

They give us eighteen years To figure out how to spend our lives;We’re pushed towards high-paying careersAt the cost of letting our dreams die.