Elsewhere and Otherwise: Essays
Michael Vito Tosto
Top 10 Best Quotes
“There are few sounds as soothing to me as the gentle patter of rain falling outside.”
“If there was one message I could be known for in the years and centuries after I’m gone, one message for which I’m remembered, if I am remembered at all, it would be the urgent bulletin I’m delivering right here and now: where you are now and what you are now—at this precise moment—is absolutely, one hundred percent okay… and accepting yourself right now for who and what and where you are is not only your best bet, it’s your only bet.”
“Every time I exit my lair and venture out among the multitudes, I’m always bringing my isolation with me.”
“Whatever is going on inside the hearts of people today, I want no part of it. Besides, it’s not like I can change it. I could shout on the street corner all day and no one will really hear me. And since I have no interest in throwing straw wrenches into societal gears that aren’t going to be stopped anyway, I don’t care anymore. I just don’t fucking care.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Reality is designed to keep people lost.”
“My life has often been characterized by a perpetual desire to be somewhere other than wherever I am at any given moment.”
“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.”
“I’m not really an expert on the nature of holes. I just strongly feel that holes are begging to be filled (the penis is aware of this). And I don’t think a hole wants to be a hole. I think a hole wants to be something else.”
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