Robert M. Drake Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes, your scars have a lot less to do with where you have been and a lot more to do with where you are going. — Robert M. Drake

Destroy the
fear in you
before the
fear destroys
the life
before you. — Robert M. Drake

We think we owe everyone something. We think we need to explain ourselves and we think too much about thinking too much.
And it is funny how we think we know it all, but the reality is this: everything we think that brings us together is everything that sets us further apart. And over thinking of how different we all are; is failing to recognize of how connected we all could really be. — Robert M. Drake

Every night I was going back to the strands of our memories and some nights, no every night, I would surrender to the fabric of you, because one night was not enough. I always found myself wanting more. — Robert M. Drake

We must always welcome the end of all things. For sometimes knowing nothing lasts forever is the only way we can learn to fall in love with all the moments, and all the people, that are meant to take our breath away. — Robert M. Drake

Maybe all the broken dreams and empty promises the world offered are just reflections of what is within us. Maybe one day we will learn to accept ourselves for all the faults sleeping beneath the footprints we leave behind. — Robert M. Drake

Messages To You My Dear, Sometimes I am here and sometimes I am not, I like that about myself for I am folded. But please guide me in the right direction, for sometimes I, too, tend to lose myself in my imagination. — Robert M. Drake

She was in love,
but not in love with
someone or something;
she was in love with her
life. — Robert M. Drake

Do not worry, little heart. They are only feelings. So care a little less, the ride will be much more than what it seems. — Robert M. Drake

From chaos to lullabies
I watched her
live my thoughts,
and soon enough
she did become
my favorite stony.
She was everything
and with every word
she drew me closer.
She drew me into her story,
a story
I knew I would never
be able to understand. — Robert M. Drake

There is nothing out here...
it is all inside;
it is all in my head.
The things that happen do not exist
unless I give them meaning.
To be able to define everything
is where my greatest weakness lies.
To be able to feel
is the madness I need to make sense
of the things that strike me.
People strike me,
love strikes me
and everything else moves me
in such a way
that I could barely understand.
I feel,
and everything I feel is nothing;
nothing but an extension
of the mind
and
of the heart I was born with. — Robert M. Drake

Maybe
we feel
empty
because we
leave
pieces of
ourselves
in all the
things
we used to
love. — Robert M. Drake

Old photographs
We take pictures with people
so they could remember us
and leave memories behind
so they don't forget us.
And the difference
between the two are the same.
We leave these moments
in the air,
hoping that somewhere
someone will find them
and make sense of everything
we chose to ignore. — Robert M. Drake

I will never be at ease while watching the sunset, knowing our stories will never end with the same words. All sunsets have their own story, it is just that ours will always fall incomplete. — Robert M. Drake

And in the end,
she left a scar
and I knew that was
how she wanted to
be remembered.

She wanted to leave
her mark in the
world
without getting
her heart too
attached to it. — Robert M. Drake

To change the world we must heal our women, because it is the women who teach us how to love. — Robert M. Drake

Imagine what we would accomplish together if we left our egos at the door. — Robert M. Drake

She was the death of me,
the beginning and the end.
And I never understood her,
for how could someone
So beautiful be the cause
of so much destruction
after all. — Robert M. Drake

I can't recognize myself
lately;
I'm someone I used to know.
I think you took me with you
and I was hoping you could
just leave me somewhere else,
because I've been waiting
for myself,
waiting for all the pieces
to come home. — Robert M. Drake

Thing were falling apart. We just could not slow down. We were evolving into something greater, perhaps too much for our own good. And one thing always remained as I moved on. I saved a little bit of love just in case you would ever return home. — Robert M. Drake

Conquer the demons in you before letting the demons in others conquer you. — Robert M. Drake

If there is something you must know before I let you go; it is this: in your journey you will meet broken people, hateful people and people who have lost the sight for their glory. And the beauty of it all is this: I will tell you to love them, to love them deeply and show them how some of us still care. Never give up on them, for to give up on them is to destroy a reflection of ourselves. — Robert M. Drake

Let your love flow where the beautiful things are and something beautiful will always come your way. — Robert M. Drake

Chaos,
leave me never,
keep me wild
and keep me free
so that my
brokenness will be,
the only beauty
the world will see. — Robert M. Drake

Dear God, I am not like you. I am weak, my bones brittle, my heart filled with darkness and at times my demons crawl out from the walls you helped me build. I am just an extension of your brilliance but what would it be like to be a wave in the ocean of you. I am lost in your shine and I drown in your touch. So maybe I have ignored you lately but this is me reminding you that I, too, suffer and I, too, seek the beauty in humanity. So hear me, you are not alone. — Robert M. Drake

And loving you was a pattern of self-discovery because some way, somehow I always ended up learning something new about myself. — Robert M. Drake

We are beautiful things, wild things, searching for the brilliance within us. — Robert M. Drake

Burn away and burn every burning sorrow that burns you like a burning star and awaken all that you would burn for to burn away every burning scar. — Robert M. Drake

Dedicated

to all who have a dream

to all who struggle
two jobs to get by

to all who have been
ignored all their lives

to all who feel empty

to all who cannot sleep
because there is so much
in their mind

to all who have died a little
in the name of love

to all who are called weird,
strange and odd

to all who create because
that is the only thing they know
how to do

to all who believe in something

to all who breathe and to all
who are no longer here

this one is for you. — Robert M. Drake

Lost World Maybe that is the problem with the world. We do not know what to feel and we do not know how to be ourselves. — Robert M. Drake

Our fate lies
in the hands
of the things we love
and sometimes
the things we love
are the things
that lead us
to the fatal destruction
of ourselves. — Robert M. Drake

dreams were always drawn to call her name and reality just couldn't learn to let her go. — Robert M. Drake

The funny thing
about
advice is,
we always tell
others
the things
we
cannot
really do
ourselves. — Robert M. Drake

Look deeper through the telescope
and do not be afraid when the stars
collide towards the darkness,
because sometimes the most beautiful
things begin in chaos. — Robert M. Drake

Be authentic to yourself, but if you must cheat, cheat yourself out of the lies the world created. — Robert M. Drake

Society taught us how to hate. Hate taught us violence. Violence taught us regret. Regret taught us pain. Pain taught us love. Love taught us how to laugh and laughter makes every moment far more beautiful then we could ever imagine. — Robert M. Drake

Your sky is full of stars and my arms too short to reach a piece to call my own — Robert M. Drake

Sometimes love
is that fucked up movie
where everyone dies
in the end. — Robert M. Drake

The more she went on to forget love, the closer she went on to become it. — Robert M. Drake

You are only as free as you think you are and freedom will always be as real as you believe it to be. — Robert M. Drake

Stop looking for something when something has already found you. You have been living with your eyes closed. Awaken, it's there. Take it, it's yours. — Robert M. Drake