70 Quotes by Rod McKuen

Loving is the only sure road out of darkness, the only serum known that cures self-centeredness

Love is a sweet thing caught a momentand held in a golden eye.

People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.

To understand others you should get behind their eyes and walk down their spines.

Watch the indolent butterfly playing on the tall flower in the yard and think about the sun going down. It always does you know.

I am not a joiner. Somewhere I once said that people join clubs now for the very reason they once carried them, a need for security. Maybe I'm alone more often than I should be, because I try to find security within myself.

We will all wake up semi-angels, If we wake at all.

I chose the shadows; they did not choose me. I stay here securely not just because I feel plain, but because disappearance is by now the easy way. The habit. The worn path that I can trod knowingly and be assured safe passage home.

I have never known a cat that couldn't quiet me down just by walking slowly past my chair.