Sarah Noffke Quotes & Sayings

Most people aren't happy. They sing songs like they are. Make up cute little stories. Post pics of the rare times when life wasn't dreadful. Most people are stomaching this whole affair called life. Are these people complainers? Probably. Most are. But they're also just blokes who're too afraid to take a risk. So they live lives in a redundant cycle of complacent apathy. Then these people wallow around day after day in their unhappiness. The more you do that, the more you lose sight of the chances you could take to make things better. — Sarah Noffke

Toddlers really are daft with their inexperience and lack of communication skills. They all need to fucking grow up. — Sarah Noffke

The longer we confine ourselves to a place the more it imprisons us. — Sarah Noffke

Sometimes you don't get to be who you are. — Sarah Noffke

I know how it fees to plead. I know how it feels to wish someone would give you a chance to help them. — Sarah Noffke

The audience was ecstatic, leaving the big top with smiles that wouldn't fade for hours. They had seen what they thought were tricks, not realizing everything about this circus was real. — Sarah Noffke

I only ever save you because I can't live without you. My reasons are purely selfish. — Sarah Noffke

Somehow my instinct told me to become acquainted with the pain. When in the company of others I forced it to the bottom of my soul, but alone I wore it on the surface, feeling it like a constant companion. — Sarah Noffke

Sometimes not punishing your enemy is the best strategy. What they will do to themselves, after experiencing your mercy, is much more effective. — Sarah Noffke

Building a happy life usually takes constant renovations. — Sarah Noffke

We protect. That's what it means to be a Lucidite. If something happened to one of you, I'd willingly walk through fire and suffer torment to bring you back. We don't leave each other behind and we don't turn our backs when someone needs us most. — Sarah Noffke

My heart is kerosene, my mind a match. I'm seconds away from igniting. — Sarah Noffke

Unfortunately, there will always be a segment of the population who blindly follow, even after overwhelming evidence is presented to them. — Sarah Noffke

Most people gawked at her because of her exotic appearance or stared with envy at her beauty. However, he always looked at her in a studious way, as if he was trying to piece her together like she was a marble puzzle. A statue he was constructing from parts of her abstract soul. — Sarah Noffke

What I want and what I have to do are incongruent. — Sarah Noffke

Sometimes the best thing about us isn't what we're gifted with, but what we can make others feel just by our very nature of existing. — Sarah Noffke

It's good that people get to be human. They get to fuck up and hurt each other. And have broken hearts and then seek to find ways to mend things. People get to evolve. They get to figure out how to change so they don't lose people in their life. Who are we when we aren't allowed to screw up? We are fucking lemurs who live no real lives. — Sarah Noffke

No one actually likes wine. They just like being snotty about what they choose to get drunk on. — Sarah Noffke

If my time loving you has taught me anything, it's that love grows with every returned smile, every second of communal silence and every word exchanged. Unconditional love is built and when it's finished nothing destroys it. — Sarah Noffke

A show at the circus was an organic being. It was created by real ingredients, real people. It sometimes evolved and sometimes regressed. It lived and it died. Each show, each day, was alive for a brief period of time, like a human. And then as the audience exited the big top the beating heart of that show slowed until it was no more. — Sarah Noffke

Love, deep and pure, it opens my heart. It feels like a magical force, one I'd fight to protect, one I'd die to keep. — Sarah Noffke

One of the many reasons I love libraries. Everyone is lost and not wanting to be found in a library. — Sarah Noffke

I'm not in a position where I can blindly allow myself to be manipulated. I'm a robot who has awoken to the realization that I've been damaged so I can't perform, so I can't take my rightful place within this society. And I don't want to be damaged anymore. — Sarah Noffke

Travel makes existentialists of us all. — Sarah Noffke

She noticed then how nice his teeth were. There had been little opportunity to see them, as the guy hardly ever smiled. His white teeth were flat in all the right places. Sharp in all the other right places. — Sarah Noffke

When I was born God made an awful error. He allowed me to live. — Sarah Noffke

The forest in front of me is organic and untidy and in need of a serious manicure. The British would never keep their forest in such a sorry state, all overgrown and smelling of rot. — Sarah Noffke

Who are we when we don't allow flaws in our existence, but people of denial? To delude ourselves into believing we are perfect or that perfection exists at any level is an injustice to who we really are. — Sarah Noffke

Unconditional love is something people achieve once they've given themselves over completely to someone. Once they've decided that no matter what the other person does, they will always love them. — Sarah Noffke

There will never be another Ren Lewis. And that's why God gave you such impossible talents. Because you were meant to do things humans shouldn't. That is your talent and your curse. — Sarah Noffke

Why the fuck do you think I'm so tired?" I say to her.
"Because you play too much online poker?" she says. — Sarah Noffke

Most would think that I'm a god with every reason to be happy. But I'm a mistake God made. Too much power doesn't create happiness. It steals it. To have it all means there's no struggle and without having to pay a price, nothing has value. I wasn't gifted with powers. I was cursed with them. — Sarah Noffke

Blame is the dumbest thing a person can do. It always puts the control in someone else's hands. I'm always responsible for what happens to me and therefore I can change it. — Sarah Noffke

Vagabond Circus was about change. It moved from place to place, and reconfigured based on available performers. The ringmaster loved that about the circus. "Without change, we are dead," he often said. — Sarah Noffke

We're all just a conglomeration of our nervous habits. I see them like road maps in each conversation telling me more about the people than their words.
stripping people of simple things weakens them. — Sarah Noffke

Denial has rented a room in my head and frequently stomps around slamming doors. — Sarah Noffke

Even when I don't know the people, I still find their faults. Or invent them. — Sarah Noffke

I'm an anchor and he is the sea and I sink into his tenderness as he presses my hand to his heart. — Sarah Noffke

Second chances don't ever, ever come along. You go and seize them. — Sarah Noffke

I can't tell you how many times you've given my life meaning because the occasions have been too numerous. — Sarah Noffke

You know, sometimes even when two people love each other the universe still conspires against them, forces them apart. — Sarah Noffke

The world is whole because people choose to love each other and treat one another with respect. Organization is a part of the system, a by-product. Organization is something that happens when people value life and their surroundings. To think our existence needs to be centered on a starched appearance and a tidy home is outrageous. — Sarah Noffke

He makes me perfect and so very flawed in my love. Makes me realize all the ways I could love him better, but in this moment we are perfect. Reunited. Happy in each other's arms. Accepting of each other's stupid decisions. — Sarah Noffke

Right now in this space, I feel a brand new pull to him. I've always been drawn to his features, his brilliance, his laughter, his passion. But right now I'm attracted to his pain. It makes him human. It makes him real. It makes him something he hardly ever is to me: accessible. — Sarah Noffke

I can't let you go. If you leave, I'm leaving too. If you stay, I will. Hell, if you march into your father's house I'll be right behind you, because I'm absolutely, terrifyingly in love with you. — Sarah Noffke

You fuckers drag your imbecile asses around this planet, sucking up resources, terrorizing, and leaving your bloody trash for others to bury. You came here to see a shark or whale or a rattlesnake. Well, go out in the bloody world and see them in real life and not imprisoned for your enjoyment. And while you're at it stop fucking around because I'm tired of watching the repugnant shit you all do. — Sarah Noffke

You don't want to wake up and realize you could have been happy, that the risks would have been worth it, but you dwindled away your chances. — Sarah Noffke

We are only ever a thought away from changing a would-be destiny. — Sarah Noffke

It's just like riding a bicycle. If you fall off, it hurts like hell. — Sarah Noffke

The fastest way to heal is to bypass the drama and head straight for the solution. — Sarah Noffke

People fight wars for power. But those who win are motivated by love. Never lose sight of that. — Sarah Noffke

He has exchanged part of his spirit for just the will to live. — Sarah Noffke

Regret swallows broken men whole. Acceptance builds them anew. — Sarah Noffke

I hope so too, and that is one of the most powerful ways to get anywhere. Hope — Sarah Noffke

You're the empire I'd protect. You're my reason for serving. I want you above all else. You're my freedom. — Sarah Noffke

When a heart breaks a substance spills out like cement and pours through the bloodstream, hardening everything. In time, I know my heart will mend and the rock inside will crack and crumble away. But for now I'm as solid as a column. And alone I stand. — Sarah Noffke

Wars are won from a wink, a gesture, an event that transpired a millennium before the battle. Humanity has always been saved by small acts; the ones where someone gained a piece of their own puzzle, not the ones where a hero stood prodigious on a battlefield. — Sarah Noffke

Zoos and aquariums with glass walls serve a purpose but they also teach ignorant fuckers that they are better because we aren't the ones being held captive. When was it ever our right because we have opposable thumbs to put God's animals on permanent display in every major city in the world? We might be saving a few, but we wouldn't have to save any if we weren't fucking up the whole planet. — Sarah Noffke

Over here you'll see San Fran is also host to a wide variety of exotic animals. Many find our streets to be like a modern rain forest," she says, indicating a flock of flea-ridden pigeons pecking leftovers off a bum sleeping on the curb. — Sarah Noffke

His eyes have the wrong effect on me. They grind me to a powder and his smile is the breath that sends me in all directions. — Sarah Noffke

I'm fairly certain the state of California wants its residents to die. Why else make curvy roads with no guardrails on the side of a cliff with zero shoulder? One false move and we're plummeting over the edge and into the rocky Pacific. Yay for bloody vacations and adventures. — Sarah Noffke

I know there's no way that I deserve you," he said, cutting her off, his voice a half whisper. "We make no sense together. We are so different that our involvement should be illegal, but that doesn't change my instinct on this. I sense we're connected, and for a reason. — Sarah Noffke

Being poor is a choice. People make decisions every day that decide whether they are fat or stupid or poor. It is not my responsibility to interfere in the lives people have chosen, — Sarah Noffke

The big top deflating symbolized death. The end of another round of shows. The last part of the life of this big top. The same big top would be reborn in another city. It would rise into the air, like the phoenix, but it would never be like this tent, with its backdrop and its smells and its winds. — Sarah Noffke

It's hard to know someone so well and then meet them for the first time in their new life. — Sarah Noffke

There are two types of humans in this world: those who function so they can get something and those who function so they can give something. — Sarah Noffke

Solutions aren't discovered, they're bloody created. — Sarah Noffke

My dark secret is I've always wished I was Gatsby. As heartbroken as he was and as horrible a fate as he endured, I admired that he loved. It's a difficult thing to do. — Sarah Noffke

He's my calm in commotion. He's the rebel smiling when the danger mounts. He's the guy daring to joke in the face of death. — Sarah Noffke

I think you've been hurt too much from an early age. You were trying to fix the world that broke you. When that didn't work you pretended you weren't broken. But you don't have to pretend with me, because no matter what you do I'll always accept you. — Sarah Noffke

Don't make loss in your life make you a loser. — Sarah Noffke

His warmth fills the space between my heartbeats. I don't know what it is about him, but he lures me in so effortlessly and tangles my heart in a net. — Sarah Noffke

He's incredibly perfect in his very nature of existing. He's perfect in his uniqueness. He burns so bright. So bright at times he hurts my eyes. Makes my heart ache from his grace. — Sarah Noffke

The belongings people accumulate throughout their lives will always own them. People seem to think if they had more they'd be happier or freer, but their possessions only chain them to the earth. — Sarah Noffke

And her stare is a force I feel could shock my system like a defibrillator, restarting my heart. — Sarah Noffke

For centuries explorers, scientists and religious followers have sought a way to make the hooded figure of death fail in his quest. And none have persevered. But they didn't know what I know. They sought fountains of youth and treasures and other sacrificial regimens that would secure their immortality. But it's not about the blood that runs through our veins. It's about the approach. Death can't be thwarted with a miracle cure. It has to be outmaneuvered. — Sarah Noffke

Rarely does the truth set us free. Usually it chains us to the earth like a ghost. — Sarah Noffke

You can't force feed wealth. — Sarah Noffke

Sometimes you can't tell people things because you know they won't hear you. — Sarah Noffke

I'm fairly certain God takes notes out of my book. He should. If he knows what's good for him. — Sarah Noffke

Taking a risk to survive isn't that impressive. Taking a risk to be happy, that takes guts. — Sarah Noffke

The Vagabond Circus was different than all the rest in many ways and the first was it had no clowns. Not a single red, round nose in the whole troupe. Maybe that was the reason that Dave had decided he'd be the silliest ringmaster in all of history. His job was to lead and move the events of the show along but he was less a Master of Ceremony and more a buffer between the jaw dropping acts. — Sarah Noffke

I'm a heartless optimist. This combination could make me lethal, but mostly it has led to a successful hermit lifestyle. — Sarah Noffke

For her it had always been easy to apologize. It was simple to admit her mistakes because otherwise they seemed to lie across her lap paralyzing her until she said those two words. Then her blunder flew away to the trees where all wrong deeds lived after being made right. — Sarah Noffke

Sometimes you have to allow yourself to be helpless. — Sarah Noffke

One must weather the storm to spy the rainbows. — Sarah Noffke

I know who he is and just what he's capable of," I say, seeing his piercing stare in my mind's eye. "But the way others treat me doesn't dictate the way I treat them. — Sarah Noffke

What's the point in having one another if we're just going to allow each other to die when the time comes? — Sarah Noffke

He was a tornado, changing every second, beautiful and dangerous and unpredictable. But she loved storms. Always had. — Sarah Noffke

He was impoverished in every way that meant something to him. However, he did have his health. But that only made him alive when he wished he was dead. — Sarah Noffke

He stood lamely staring out at the grief-stricken crowd like he was watching a hurricane wreak havoc outside his window. He was powerless to stop the destruction but it was his burden to watch it transpire. — Sarah Noffke

Everyone treats you extra nice when they think you're about to die. — Sarah Noffke

This experience is brand new. Not new. It is my first time, and also not. It is familiar and unfamiliar at the same time. I don't know how to explain the feeling of unfeeling. Of experiencing the unexperience of this all. I am lost and yet I'm here. I'm me and yet I don't fully know who that is. — Sarah Noffke

Are you going to right your wrongs? Are you going to save the people you've unknowingly harmed? — Sarah Noffke

I ask God all sorts of questions, but only science ever answers back. — Sarah Noffke

Nothing lasts forever. Everything is fleeting. And yet, that's the very reason that life has meaning. When things cost effort to gain and are finite they are of value. — Sarah Noffke

Not the way he looks, but specifically the way he looks at me threatens my inhibitions. It's all greedy yearning. — Sarah Noffke

Love is really the most beautiful show. It can't rehearsed. It can't be planned. It is the product of magic. It is what Vagabond Circus is all about. — Sarah Noffke

Tears ache in my throat and each time his lips caress mine I'm closer to the dam within me bursting open. He's undoing me, tearing out my demons with burning strokes of his lips and the salty taste of his mouth. In his arms, I'm changing, becoming anew. — Sarah Noffke

Millions of pages cloaked in dust and inspiration and wisdom. — Sarah Noffke