70 Quotes by Rod McKuen

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.

We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We’re meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so we tell ourselves. But it’s a long way from the morning to the evening.

I’ve been going a long time now along the way I’ve learned some things. You have to make the good times yourself take the little times and make them into big times and save the times that are all right for the ones that aren’t so good.

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

I’ve come to terms with it, it knows I know.

Be gentle with me, new love. Treat me tenderly. I need the gentle touch, the soft voice, the candlelight after nine. There’s been so many who didn’t understand so give me all the love I see in your timid eyes but give it gently Please.

Cats have it all – admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

It’s nice sometimes to open up the heart a little and let some hurt come in. It proves you’re still alive.

Unless you call attention to your presence who will know you’re there? Even a country has to weave and wave a flag as proof of its existence.