Greg F. Gifune Quotes & Sayings

I have to get them out. It's the only way I know how to do it. Ever since I was a little boy, I've written things down. Thoughts, dreams, stories, poems, all of it written down, pounded out on old typewriters or scribbled here or there on pads and scraps of paper, like once I'd written it down I'd be free of it somehow. — Greg F. Gifune

Most of us aren't what we should be. We're just what we end up. — Greg F. Gifune

Am I dreaming? The nightmares don't stop anymore, so it's hard to tell. They quite down now and then, but they're always here. Screeching in my head, the constant din echoes through my skull like the deafening clamour of giant invisible machines. Makes it difficult to tell where the world of shadows end and reality begins. — Greg F. Gifune

Hans Christian Andersen said 'Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.' Maybe he was right, maybe not. Either way, just remember: enchanting as they may be, in fairytales the forests are always dark. — Greg F. Gifune

We all serve one master, and I've come to learn that it rarely turns out to be the one we were counting on. — Greg F. Gifune

After all, Goodness is a state of grace. Evil, is a state of mind. — Greg F. Gifune

Just because Shangri-La may not exist doesn't mean we shouldn't keep looking for it, because maybe that's exactly where it does exist, in the striving. — Greg F. Gifune

The illusion of hope is Hell's greatest joy. — Greg F. Gifune

It's like at night, when it's raining and there's cars and headlights moving through the darkness, through the window. Everything's shiny and wet and looks so new. Undamaged, you know? Alive. Everything looks alive. And just for a moment, the whole world makes sense, it all fits together. You know it. You see it so clearly. And then it's gone. — Greg F. Gifune

Truth always comes with some measure of pain — Greg F. Gifune

It's getting cold." "Yeah, I like it though." Sensing my discomfort he said, "Alan, it is what is. We just got to keep moving. Like sharks, right? We stop, we die. — Greg F. Gifune

Fear does funny things to people. Shit, Dahmer was cooking and eating people in the middle of an apartment building. Imagine what you can get away with in a no man's land. — Greg F. Gifune

Funny thing, time, how it all fit together despite such arbitrary beginnings and endings, the whole of it played out and calculated down to the very second, each breath, every sunset, dream and waking moment designed, the beat of every heart accounted for, each life a preordained piece of a much larger puzzle, a precisely measured unit in the infinite vacuum of space and time. — Greg F. Gifune

None of us are ever far from death. Try as we might to convince ourselves otherwise, our vulnerability is profound and intrinsic, our time on this Earth borrowed, fleeting. — Greg F. Gifune