Scott Aukerman Quotes

The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.

Flowers are one of the few things we buy, bring home, watch die, and we don't ask for our money back.

Everything can be undone, including success.

Some things are forgotten, some things disappear, some things die.

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

One win, and you're on top of the world. Lose in the first round of the next tournament: you're back to reality.

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

Success lasts only three seconds. After that, you're the same as you were before you had it.

Love doesn't last.

I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.

The top of a pinnacle now, firewood soon

… where they will vanish in the night and fog.

You can write the best column in the world on Monday, and it does you absolutely no good on Tuesday. There is no way to win. You just write until you are tired, they fire you, or you die.

That's the nature of this business. Something that took ten years to make can crumble in an instant. It could be snatched away from you at any moment.

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

It's so easy for all the success in the world to suddenly end, and I'm quite aware of that.

Results come and go; tournaments come and go.

Sometimes you think things are going to be forever, and then... of course, they're not.

Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.

Si l'on vit assez longtemps, on voit que toute victoire se change un jour en de faite. If you live long enough, you'll find that every victory turns into a defeat.

If pursuing material things becomes your only goal, you will fail in so many ways. Besides, in time all material things go away.

Time doesn’t obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.

How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash.