90 Quotes by Tim Kreider

Perhaps the reason we so often experience happiness only in hindsight, and that any deliberate campaign to achieve it is so misguided, is that it isn’t an obtainable goal in itself but only an artereffect. It’s the consequence of having lived in the way that we’re supposed to – by which I don’t mean ethically correct but fully, consicously engaged in the business of living.

Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people – if they require you to act as though you were a worse person than you are – you may have lost perspective.

Young people don’t say the new normal anymore; to them it’s just normal. But I guess no one finds themselves in the same country they were born in at the ends of their lives. We all die in exile.

His professed philosophy of “Shandyism” is a defiant frivolity that declines to take the world as seriously as it tries to insist upon. In.

You can’t feel crazily grateful to be alive your whole life any more than you can stay passionately in love forever – or grieve forever, for that matter. Time makes us all betray ourselves and get back to the busywork of living.

The smell of hospitals is like small talk at a funeral – you know its function is to cover up something else.

Of course time doesn’t stop for anyone; alcohol just keeps you from feeling it, the way it’ll keep a man cozy while he freezes to death.

Life is too short to be busy.

It makes me proud of all of us who are secretly going to pieces behind closed doors but still somehow keeping it together for the public, collaborating in the shaky ongoing effort of not letting civilization fall apart for one more day.