Augusten Burroughs Quotes

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You never know what it’s going to look like on the other side, but you’ll see it eventually if you keep your eyes open.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Every choice you make has an end result.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.

I believe that everything we think and feel and do produces a result and that we have to deal with that result - that result is then something that produces another result, so on and so forth, so yes, I do believe in causality.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

Events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

Things don't happen for no reason.

Every choice you make has a consequence, every one. It's mathematic. It cannot fail; it never fails.

For one change always leaves a dovetail into which another will fit.

There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course.

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.

Nothing comes into being without a cause and when all the conditions are created, there is nothing that can prevent the consequence.

As the means, so the end.

Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.