Franz Wright Quotes

I'm a take-me-as-l-am person, and all the rest is water under the bridge. You can't change yesterday any more than you can predict what's gonna happen tomorrow.

The way I want to be remembered is not the way I will be, and I'm cool with that.

This was real. And it was me. I had lived that life, and I had died that death. I was staring at the very end of me.

Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.

A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.

Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.

Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his so-called life. 'And we (will) all die and the stars will go out, one after another.

He got right down in the dark between heartbeats, and rested there. And then he saw that another one wasn't going to come. That's it. That's the last. He looked at the dark. I would like to take this opportunity, he said, to pray for another human being.

Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over, and that's everything.

Shakespeare said it best,' Tamaru said quietly as he gazed at that lumpish, misshapen head. 'Something along these lines: if we die today, we do not have to die tomorrow, so let us look to the best in each other

He who remembers the evils he has undergone, and those that have threatened him, and the slight causes that have changed him from one state to another, prepares himself in that way for future changes and for recognizing his condition. The life of Caesar has no more to show us than our own; an emperor's or an ordinary man's, it is still a life subject to all human accidents.

You have to make a decision, what you want to do in life, ... Your deal can be, you can leave tomorrow. Soon as you leave, you will be forgotten.

You begin to understand that warriorship is a path or a thread that runs through your entire life. It is not just a technique that you apply when you are unhappy or depressed. Warriorship is a continual journey. To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life. That is the warrior's discipline

Life is a process of losing our illusions, until we finally lose the illusion that we're alive.

Never expect, never presume, always work hard and always be true to who you are.

All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.

It's only life. We all get through it.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!

I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

But death we are, and death we've always been.