Lynda Barry Quotes

You can make a fresh start with your final breath.

I wouldn't know what to do with another chance if you gave it to me.

And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning.

I had many decades of me time and now I just don't have that anymore. There are days when I rail against it.

I call it 'the Etch A Sketch life.' Every few years, you should shake that thing up.

I feel like in a way I'm starting over, with everything.

I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.

I don't know how, where, and why the idea for 'Defending Your Life' began; the idea had been bouncing around for a while. Stories like that sort of have to bounce. They don't come out of nowhere. I went through my own period of life with sort of everything turning upside down, and wondering, 'Why is it this way?'

I feel like I'm a beginner in everything in life.

You can't think about the past anymore.

It makes you not believe in anything, when you do every single thing you can do right, and then there's still some way to mess it up.

No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.

i hate not knowing what i did." _Eric

I did things I did not understand for reasons I could not begin to explain just to be in motion, to be trying to do something, change something in a world I wanted desperately to make over but could not imagine for myself.

There was I thinking being a shifter had its upsides. Looks like I was wrong.

From every ending comes a new beginning.

We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed.

There's no point in looking back, because there's nothing you can really do to improve the film. You can only aggravate and wish you had done stuff better.

It's time to start all over/make a new beginning.

The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.

The loss of control you fear is already in the past.

I'll turn over a new leaf.

if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.

I want a new past,new memories, a new first handshake with love. I want to start over in every possible way.