Dave Eggers Quotes

shane:do we have a choice michael:dont think so shane:then screw im gitting tired lets go get eaten.at least then i can get some sleep

Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.

You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever.

On some nights, he has nowhere to sleep, on others he suffers from insomnia. "That's just how it is," thinks the warrior. "I was the one who chose to walk this path."

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.

First thing in the morning, we're really tired, and we look at each other and we wonder, 'Are we ever going to get sleep?' And yet, it doesn't matter if you don't get sleep. It's an honor to take care of them.

The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.

Everything's happened to me. Nothing can happen to me now.

Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require.

It's my tough luck if things happen that are complicated.

You have to learn to do everything, even to die.

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?

Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don’t cry. I say maybe it’s meant to be.

I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready.

A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch the knotted cords from the hand of God and deal out murderous blows.

The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases.

I am struggling, though. It’s f-cking hard. So little sleep. It’s 23 hours and 59 minutes of exhaustion. They do one little thing in that last minute that is just so compelling and fascinating that it makes the other 23 hours and 59 minutes worthwhile.

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

I'm tired of fighting, Dash. I guess this thing is going to get me.

I am not so foolish as to murmur, if now, since I have drunk up my wine and beer, I have to put up with skimmed milk and sour.

I'm tired again, I've tried again, and now my heart is full. And I just can't explain...so I won't even try to.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.