26 Quotes by Michael Vito Tosto

I’m paving my own road, confronting (or at least trying to confront), the storm the only way I know how: from a quiet place of solitude and reflection where all my demons can be heard the loudest. I don’t do this because I like their song. I do this because I want them dead.

The regrettable fact of our reality is that life is always lived in the retrospect. We never know what is to come, and most of us haven’t learned how to live in the now. As such, all we have is the past.

Depression is what naturally occurs when the conditions of reality do not match our misguided expectations, when the fruition of what we think ought to characterize existence fails to manifest. It’s the ensuing dissonance we feel when what we believe should be falls short of what is.

Reality is designed to keep people lost.

I write to better acquaint myself with my own thoughts and feelings. I don’t know how other people process existence, but if I don’t get it down on the page, I’ll never really understand it.

I sometimes think the entire human species is just a fucked-up tapestry woven out of little particles of prolonged sadness, living next to one another in sustained dissonance, reacting to each other and to the bitter truths of the Universe, replicating themselves and their sorrow on and on and on, with no end in sight save for the virus that finally wipes us and our grotesque dysfunction from the surface of the planet once and for all.

It struck me as particularly suspicious that Yahweh was described as being remarkably human. I mean, seriously; this God is, at times, almost too human.

The rain lies to us. Ah, but how sweet are the words of deception it whispers to the many broken souls among our kind, a pitiful bunch of dreamers with which I irrevocably belong.

My life has often been characterized by a perpetual desire to be somewhere other than wherever I am at any given moment.