Darnell Self Quotes & Sayings

But so went forth Darnell, day by day, strangely mistaking death for life, madness for sanity, and purposeless and wandering phantoms for true beings. He was sincerely of opinion that he was a City clerk, living in Shephard's Bush
having forgotten the mysteries and the far-shining glories of the kingdom which was his by legitimate inheritance. — Arthur Machen

Let's put god on the other side of the wall for a while. i don't need him watching us with those judging eyes. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Gonna pretend to be a deaf mute who knows no sign one day, meet a woman, and we'll write for the rest of our lives. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Look at each failure as a deposit made into the account that will help you write the check for your next significant success. — Bobby Darnell

Can a woman raise a man alone? yes, but she shouldn't have to. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up. — Darnell Lamont Walker

We played this game from the west village to the upper east side til around midnight when the Chrysler building was far behind us and we weren't sure if we were in love anymore. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Continuing to play the victim is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Blaming others for your station in life will indeed make you a victim but the perpetrator will be your own self, not life or those around you. — Bobby Darnell

I love you because
Five floor walk up
1 to the 2 to the E
Three avenues — Darnell Lamont Walker

You have to have a view of something," she said. "Otherwise you'll believe yourself to be a god, not knowing there are a million other things out there bigger than you. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I said you could ask, Mr. Marsh. I didn't say that I would answer. -Lexie Darnell — Nicholas Sparks

I remember reading article about the woman in that Oakland neighborhood who lost all her children to violence. I wondered why'd she keep living there after the first one was killed. Didn't she care about the others?
Today, I zoomed out and wondered why I'm still in America. — Darnell Lamont Walker

We should fall in love. Love each other enough to shit at the same time on the same toilet. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Always be you! Just never think you can always be you without consequence. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Our true selves have scared people away. So we sometimes give them someone else to love unconditionally before introducing them. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I'm crossing my fingers that we grow deaf together. I'm pleased just writing you. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Take that off your head! came a whiny voice, right before a teenage boy appeared at the door with a pair of underwear pulled over his brown hair like a hat. Darnell. — James Dashner

I could swear I'd just swallowed the sun. — Melissa Darnell

One day we fall in love with the one who makes us live intensely and laugh hard and heavy. And as hard as we love them, their friend loves us back equally and we just can't be. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I spent four minutes yesterday looking for the halfway point between where I am & where I want to be. I found the city - you just have to tell me if you want pizza, coffee or strange street meat. Just four minutes searching, but all day (really all week), I've been thinking of this letter & you. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I couldn't love you for who you are because you showed me who you truly wanted to be, and I loved her more. — Darnell Lamont Walker

What you don't think about when you're planning for children is when you're going to teach them how not to be killed — Darnell Lamont Walker

Some guys live in worlds where pawns stay pawns. I'm one move from king. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I don't believe that there's a silver bullet, that if you just do this one thing, you solve the problems of the world. — Darnell M. Hunt

I've never believed in anything or anybody that needed constant praise. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Intelligence is a burden not many are willing or able to carry. — Darnell Lamont Walker

There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I'm homeless. I've taken to the belief that home is not where we lay our heads comfortably some nights, or where we entertain visiting friends. It's not where love is unconditional.
When I look up and realize I haven't run away in a long time, I'll know I'm home. — Darnell Lamont Walker

She said she wanted to see beautiful things. I took her to where i planted my seeds. — Darnell Lamont Walker

She left, never to return. I planted a tree and a seed each time I thought of her. I grew a small forest and a large garden and had no one to give the orchids to. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Scar tissue is what remains when the wound heals. they never tell you that. reminders, they are. those sons of bitches. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Try evolving as much as you cry. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Sanity and sense becomes a prison. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I didn't call myself a writer until everyone else did. i knew it was real then. — Darnell Lamont Walker

There are institutions filled with people who talk to god. we've labeled and drugged them. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Waiting for a hot pocket to cook we'd fuck and be satisfied, barefoot on new york city apartment linoleum. A satisfying hot pocket and a big ass smile and a tight ass grip and a wall beside a random pipe beside the stove where we left palm and dick prints. We fucked like this. Three condoms in an hour and a half and where are you now? Holding the hand of some local dude you wish was a little more international, wishing you had known I was enough and asked me to stay. You are standing in the kitchen waiting for popcorn to pop while he washes dishes, not knowing I'm wishing back for you. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Non Violence and Religion:
Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors. — Darnell Lamont Walker

What if "redemption" means not only freeing yourself from what you've done, but also from what's been done to you? — Darnell Lamont Walker