Nilsen Quotes & Sayings

It takes time to find the courage to display the parts of yourself that aren't bright and shining. But you have to see them, have to know they're inside you ... shadows in the garden. They are a part of all of us. — Anne Bishop

The population at large is neither 'ordinary' or 'normal'. They seem to be bound together by a collective ignorance of themselves and what they are. They have, every one of them, got their deep dark thoughts with many a skeleton rattling in their secret cupboards. Their fascination with 'types' like myself plagues them with the mystery of why and how a living person can actually do things which may be only those dark images and acts secretly within them. I believe they can identify with these 'dark images and acts' and loathe anything which reminds them of this dark side of themselves. — Dennis Nilsen

In offering one's opinion, one must first ascertain whether or not the recipient is in the right frame of mind to receive counsel. — Tsunetomo Yamamoto

Love is just a piece of time
in the world
in the world
And I couldn't help but fall in love again — Zooey Deschanel

We are sorry about the way things turned out. We gave, in the phrasing of our words if not literally in the words themselves, the false impression that these pages might hold some small fragment, some slight fragrance of a greater truth. That there might be something here to be learned. Before we go any further the author of this cartoon wishes to make an apology. Such an impression was deliberately cultivated. It is a ruse. It is a lie. We are every bit as lost and afraid as children abandoned in a wood: every bit as lost as you. — Anders Nilsen

Loneliness is a long, unbearable pain ... There was never a place for me in the scheme of things ... I had become a living fantasy on a theme in dark, endless dirges ... I made another world, and real men would enter it and they would never really get hurt at all in the vivid, unreal laws of the dream. I caused dreams which caused death. This is my crime. — Dennis Nilsen

I don't lose sleep over what I have done or have nightmares about it. — Dennis Nilsen

I wish I could stop but I could not. I had no other thrill or happiness. — Dennis Nilsen

Federal drug forfeiture laws are one reason, Blumenson and Nilsen note, why state and federal prisons now confine large numbers of men and women who had relatively minor roles in drug distribution networks, but few of their bosses. — Michelle Alexander

I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes. — Ken Burns

In our culture it is a woman's body which is considered important while it is a man's mind or his activities which are valued. A woman is sexy. A man is successful. — Alleen Pace Nilsen

You can't cure ignorance based solely on the basis of a valid argument... — Gary A. Nilsen

I don't know why I stayed in this big lost corner of New Hampshire. Probably because I can blow bubble pipe bubbles at absolute zero and nobody up here pays me any mind. — K.R. Nilsen

I have started down the avenue of death and depression of a new kind of flatmate. — Dennis Nilsen

I saw him ... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength. — Dennis Nilsen

In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked. — Dennis Nilsen

It's going to be really emotional to say goodbye. I'm going to find it very difficult. But it must be done, it must be done. — J.K. Rowling

In general, Americans would walk a mile uphill in the rain to avoid pain, unless the walk could be shorter and level and the day sunny, which they'd prefer. — Geoffrey Wood

I'm a frosted lemon coward — Tegan Quin

I am damned and damned and damned. How in heaven's name could I have done any of it? — Dennis Nilsen

I have judged myself more harshly than any court ever could. — Dennis Nilsen