Sam Pink Quotes & Sayings

Life like two broken hands trying to pick flowers for someone you really like. — Sam Pink

You have no idea how much "no" there is in all things. — Sam Pink

And I realize that there is nothing to worry about without first wanting to be alive a certain way.
That is somewhat relaxing to think. — Sam Pink

My brother said something, but I'd been distracted by a nice flower in someone's back yard.
Wanted to pick it for my girlfriend.
Then I realized she might be sad I killed it.
Seemed like something she'd get sad about.
Maybe not.
I could just say, "Here, I killed this for you."
As in, "Of course I would kill something for you."
As in, "Everything is potentially your gift. — Sam Pink

I'm hoping to find an advertisement for a job that entails worrying when removing your hand from your pockets because you always think that you are dropping something so you turn around and check the ground and shit but nothing, but maybe something, but always maybe something. — Sam Pink

You aren't sure whether you have feelings or not but that's all part of the shrug you have performed in slow motion for your entire life so far. — Sam Pink

from the poem: MANNEQUINS THAT SWEAT BLACK INK AND NEVER HAVE ANY FUN

If you put a twizzler in your ear it looks like your ear is vomiting blood. — Sam Pink

We are not touching or communicating.
I like it.
It feels real to me.
It feels like practice. — Sam Pink

If I ever find a dead horse, I am going to beat the fucking shit out of it. — Sam Pink

It seems I keep track of opportunities I will never have more than focusing on ones I do have and could have. — Sam Pink

I don't make eye contact with any girls because I don't want to ruin their night and make them feel bad.
I make eye contact with some guys because sometimes I just feel angry. — Sam Pink

I don't know if I should judge myself based on what I can accept or what I can't accept but I do know that I always dislike where I am and then look back on where I was with sadness because it is gone.
(That's means I am worthless and it's my fault. — Sam Pink

And I lie down on your carpet so long that you think I will stay forever but I get up and I see the indentation in the carpet and I get jealous and say, "I am no longer needed here. — Sam Pink

My roommate knocks on my door and I try not to move.
My heart is beating fast.
He knocks again and then leaves.
I win.
This is but one of the many victories I have exampled as a human among humans.
I have no equals.
My strength is unmatched. — Sam Pink

The dream I have when I go to sleep involves me crawling through a very narrow wooden corridor for a very long time. — Sam Pink

I entertain the idea that if my present life is the punishment for a former life, then I would never want to meet myself as the self of this former life. — Sam Pink

I walk down the hallway and go into my room and call it a day and it calls me something else. — Sam Pink

When the stoplight signals to cross I wait to take a step until the other men walk away.

I don't want to walk next to them.

It is horrible for me to be walking at the same pace next to someone on the sidewalk.

And like all others, these men pass me.

Now knowing that in infinite space there is a pure negative, shaped exactly like me.

With no intentions of making friends.

Insecure enough not to make friends so as not to lose them. — Sam Pink

People viewed me as an adult but I was just shit.
I always expected adulthood to happen, to make, like, a popping or dinging sound when it did. — Sam Pink

Not quite a piece of shit myself, but the streak for sure. For sure the area the shit passes over and leaves behind parts of itself. — Sam Pink

In the photo, he and some old girlfriend smiled - greasy faces idiotic with hope that the picture would one day remind them that for three seconds they acted happy and thought it final. — Sam Pink

I think that if I discovered I had cancer I would immediately say the word, "Phew."
Phew. — Sam Pink

How the mouth of the cat carcass would shake terribly at me as the tire spun. And how, yeah, it'd be fucking awesome if a magic key came out of the cat's shaking mouth - a magical key that took me on a magical journey and ended up, somehow, with me being born as a baby eagle but like, with the mind I have now (why not). — Sam Pink

Sunbeams were coming down from the bottom of the cloudcover, pointing to different areas of Chicago.
And I wanted to break off a sunbeam right where it met with the clouds and use it as a sword to protect the city.
Anyone coming in comes through me.
Anyone leaving leaves through me.
Anyone not wanted, denied.
Everyone else inside safe-but always in view of my sunbeam sword as I hold it, arms crossed and expressionless. — Sam Pink

from the poem Holographic Personality Disgrace:

Some people are such assholes that saying, "Look, again, I'm sorry I cut off my thumb and glued it to your baby's head because I thought you'd like him better as a unicorn" means nothing to them. — Sam Pink

Outside, I experience a bad feeling and I realize it is because I haven't been outside for a few day so now it's uncomfortable. — Sam Pink

And I realize I have never once actually been happy in my life.
And also never felt any kind of care that didn't threaten to give up when challenged. — Sam Pink

Every time I leave the apartment, I mistake the tree stump across the street for two people kissing/holding each other. I've forgotten every time that it's a tree stump. I'm disappointed every time it's a tree stump. — Sam Pink

My history is the history of things imagined and not-happened. — Sam Pink

And I saw my reflection in a lake and I waited for it to freeze a little bit so I could break it with my boot. — Sam Pink

There should be a word for what happens when you begin to ruin a feeling by saying it. — Sam Pink

Three days ago, I was fired from my job teaching at a college because one of my students
bet me that you don't cum when you get a prostate exam and it took me seven minutes
to prove that dumb fucking kid wrong. It was hard to touch my own prostate, but
ultimately, I was correct. I came onto the floor and onto the person in the desk up front.
I said, "Kids, that is what is known as 'empirical evidence'. — Sam Pink

And I know different methods of self-destruction but none as intense as sitting still by myself. — Sam Pink

I always think about getting randomly hurt and how awesome it would be to just immediately be changed and removed from my situation. To have something direct to worry about, like a broken leg or a really big cut. I'd no longer be a person blending in. — Sam Pink

My ideal date would involve painful silence. My ideal date wouldn't involve me. — Sam Pink

And I hope we meet again so you can guess how old I am by the rings around my eyes and I hope we meet again so I can judge how much I've died according to your limp smile. — Sam Pink

He just danced, eating chips. Then he started bouncing up and down, bending at the knees. Classic baby style. I felt like turning to the girl next to me and saying, "Ah, classic baby style. — Sam Pink

Sometimes I definitely feel a sense of accomplishment but it's never after accomplishing something. — Sam Pink

You are a very real person when that is what you wish you weren't most. — Sam Pink

The terrible divide between trying and being ready to try. — Sam Pink

And I know that when I run from something, there is a bigger part of me that hopes I get caught than there is that hopes I get away. — Sam Pink

I think tomorrow I'll burn myself on the stove so people will feel sorry for me. — Sam Pink

He says, "Does it ever bother you how unneeded you are, almost everywhere. — Sam Pink

And I'm thinking a thought that is something like, "Be thankful for what's left of you. — Sam Pink

And I realized that part of my problem was I visibly resembled an adult. But never became one. — Sam Pink

Yearly Christmas card that reads 'Still haven't killed myself, Merry Christmas.' Life — Sam Pink