K. Martin Beckner Quotes

“I hope you learn how to slow down and not let your life pass you by while you're watching the idiot box. Life's short, and one day you'll wake up and look in the mirror and realize you look like King Tut.”

“People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they're building monuments to the greatest of all thieves.”

“Miss Green can call a turd a rose if she wants, but that don't mean people's going to be lining up to smell it.”

“Why do we as humans always tend to remember the worse things about people? We may know someone for many years, know them as vibrant and healthy, yet when they fall ill and pass away, we can only picture them at their sickest, as though they were born and lived their whole lives wearing a death mask.”

“But forever was a useless term, relevant only for the dead.”

“You can lock a lion up in a room, if you want to, but you'll still hear it growling and clawing to get out.”

“Life’s journey does not take place down an easy roadway, as some might imagine. It takes place inside a giant house with a million doorways. Every day of our lives we are faced with decisions to make, doorways to walk through. It can be confusing at times, like walking through a carnival maze. Some decisions we make are big, some small, but they all have consequences..”

“I've left behind so many unfinished quilts in my life, beautiful pieces of dreams and intentions never fully assembled.”

“That scream left her mouth and entered my head, where it's been ever since, sometimes waking me up at night.”

“The world to him no longer seemed a math equation but rather a complex piece of art, a masterpiece of things not easily understood.”