Steven Erikson Quotes

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Václav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal.

Oh, cold world -- I have grown so weary of you and all your horrible bathrooms.

Take me home," Snow White said. "Take me home instantly. If there is anything worse than being home, it is being out.

I don't know why this world keeps turning, round and round. But I wish it would stop and let me off right now!

And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash.

Do you ever feel like running away?" "Of course... Sometimes I feel like I want to run away from everything." "I remember having that feeling once when I was at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm... I climbed over the fence, but I was still in the world!

My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.

It's true, I don't like the real world.

I don't think the world is a particularly pleasant place.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

Politics stinks. I just want to go back to Boston.

Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual

I just got so fed up with the bad vibes. I didn't care if it was the Beatles; I was getting out.

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

When I left the Seekers it was because I was unhappy. I wouldn't have left if I'd been happy.

This world is always fed up with politicians.

I was at my most miserable when I had everything I ever wanted.

I can't wait to get out of the house. I can't wait to get out of here. I've been telling myself this all week. The 'getting out of here' part is unspecified, though. Maybe I simply want to get away from life

For years I have read the morning paper and harrumphed. There's a lot to harrumph about now.

Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.

I'm just kind of sick of music. I don't know what I want to do. It's not that I feel suicidal or anything, but I just want to end this life. I just want to be somebody else now. Sometimes I feel like that. You always think, "If I just cut my hair really short and dye it brown and put on a little goatee, no one would know it was me, and I could..."

You know, it's not the world I would have wanted, for sure.

How does one earn innocence? - by learning from frustration, by going deep into frustrations and realizing the fact that each frustration is an outcome of a certain dream. If you don't want frustrations, drop dreaming. Life is not frustrating, dreaming is frustrating.