244 Quotes by Karl Kristian Flores

The pub. It remained the only place in the world that had not evolved into anything more sophisticated. The buildings rose, the towers hit never- ending growth spurts, the concrete sidewalks turned to polycarbonate glass billboards, and the cars drove people. But the pubs—the pubs with their gritty melancholy—endured time. No matter how advanced this species grew to be, the human heart was never short of confusion and in need of the rugged, little lullaby of alcohol and alone time.

What is a smile but proof that we have forgotten truth.

Users scroll through their feeds and look for something that isn’t there— what a perfect hamster wheel: unlimited content for a lonely soul. The miscellaneous dumpsters of the internet have sought refuge in modern consciousness.

This good thing happened. For my brother. And when I found out, I was so fucking high... and I was happy, but it was a different kind of happy. A tinted happy. A happy with one of those fiberglass screen doors covering it. I’ll never hear his news for the first time again. I lost out on a full moment forever.

A piece of plastic stole an entire species—In lobbies, in the bathroom, in an elevator,Ideas, reactions, and silent contemplations,During lunchtime, during mass, during his funeral, On the street, on break, on duty,Before the waiter brings the food and after the check,While the flight attendant bothers to request airplane mode, While a trafficked victim speaks to you in code,While the potential love of our life just walked past,While mother cooks with a recipe we forgot to ask.

Toulouse is to lose. Good on us,
That one never lied And said it’s still alive. A full life is a series Of incompletions. Whole with holes. Entirely fragmented. Carrying one-days, Sentences, Old lovers, And looks. Absolutes turn men and women
Into machines that need
Numbers to work.
But people were never meant to work Just to live.

When you fail, know that your past is anonymous to the world, so you might as well go about life as if you’ve had a good day.

After we graduate, our identities just become nervousness and worrying all the time.

Least thing we can do is to wake up in the morning and protect the good things that were. The past deserves it.