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Apollo Figueiredo QUOTES

Apollo Figueiredo QUOTES

1 " I think I finally understand what it is that you experienced in our last moments together. The fear to resign yourself to a final belief greater than yourself. It is difficult to decide what cause to believe in because of the fear that it is a lesser unworthy cause, it is not the meaning but rather a symptom of looking for meaning. And in all of our attachments we long for them to have meaning no matter how long they last. It is a scary thing to create such a drastic action that changes your life. It requires more than faith, there will be a second where only the action and what Kierkegaard called the infinite movement would have to occur. The final dance. "

― Apollo Figueiredo , A Laugh in the Spoke

2 " Getting high only made me think of you more. "

― Apollo Figueiredo , A Laugh in the Spoke

3 " I lay there. Lay there. The places we call home, are never remembered on a map. And all manic episodes start with a thought. "

― Apollo Figueiredo , A Laugh in the Spoke

4 " Another dead thing to haunt me in the night. And we will holler at lifeless crescent moons never begging for air or freedom. A flickering of a candle whose wick will not burn out as much as it will be extinguished by being drowned out. A wolf without teeth, howling his desires to unburden his soul. "

― Apollo Figueiredo , A Laugh in the Spoke

5 " It was all a leaving light. A thing that passed in the distance, that was never yours, this and that world; empty, devoid of reason, but you could still imagine it happy: before the dark wood, before you had entered this place. Where there was no other place to go but forward. Everything you despised you could still come to miss. A little view that resembles what you once knew. So you survived the flood, you survived the apocalypse, left as the last one kneeling but what now? You have seen stars collapse on themselves, drawing light from the dark. We are living with the lives we choose, however we exiled ourselves there and to which island. What is worth dying for, you say as the blade turns further into you. A bed to rest. "

― Apollo Figueiredo , A Laugh in the Spoke

6 " Hardened, and kept jagged by the snow all I wished as I walked over the frosted dirt beneath my bare feet is that I would be able to tell the difference between good and evil. "

― Apollo Figueiredo , A Laugh in the Spoke

7 " Sometimes when all feels lost, when there seem to be no other apparent options, letting loose anything as an unknown variable is the only way to alter the course of your history. "

― Apollo Figueiredo , A Laugh in the Spoke

8 " It only takes a single harrowing moment to realize that everyone is insane regardless of how sane they feel. That all decisions, reactions are justified by your individual madness. It is important to know it, this madness exists. I know it exists. I know how it impacts everything I do despite not knowing what reach my actions will have. Dust is just skin we have left behind and some people are more themselves than others. "

― Apollo Figueiredo , A Laugh in the Spoke

9 " Perspective is reality, perspective can be changed, therefore reality can be too. In this way reality then becomes subjective. "

― Apollo Figueiredo , A Laugh in the Spoke

10 " We were all deeply more ourselves than we had been before. "

― Apollo Figueiredo , A Laugh in the Spoke

11 " Nature was beautiful and I felt in tune with the universe, like every single decision I had made had brought me to here, to the glowing now. And here is such a beautiful place to be "

― Apollo Figueiredo , A Laugh in the Spoke

12 " We had sat on a bench to take a moments break earlier and we discussed the possibility of always being this high, obviously in love with the feeling of the world being perfect. Daren was sold on this possibility, thinking that this was the way to happiness. As happy as it made me I knew it was an experience that could not be repeated. When an experience is new or when it has not been felt in a long time, that is when it is its most profound. I knew it could not be repeated the same way. Beauty is so rarely repeated in experience. So they say, pleasure comes in halves. "

― Apollo Figueiredo , A Laugh in the Spoke

13 " What is the word that describes that feeling of complete of absent mindedness mixed with a sobering clarity. Like staring at a room that has gone blindingly full of light, a whiteness that keeps your mind attentive. What is the word for that feeling and does anyone else ever feel it? Do people begin everyday with their own prayer to a nameless god that is actually the universe? Are wishes our first thoughts of the day? "

― Apollo Figueiredo , A Laugh in the Spoke

14 " Beauty in a dream and beauty in reality can both be witnessed first hand. Mad men and women also witness beauty in their delusions. My world is full of those delusions but perhaps so is everyone else’s since we read into things and in the reading into of things we lose their truth in order to gain some truth in insight. "

― Apollo Figueiredo , A Laugh in the Spoke

15 " Another thing I had to learn the hard way is that once the mind is stretched by experience it can never go back to its original dimensions. No matter how desperately the alleged master of the mind wishes it could forget. That means every belief, understanding and perspective I ever have will be shaped by my past experience. Bias becomes unavoidable. "

― Apollo Figueiredo , A Laugh in the Spoke

16 " I remember I thought that she smelled like something I had never smelt before, but it was the sweetest scent. I could not describe it, but it was like a picture. A painting I had wanted to see my whole life. She was rainy mornings, and the view of cars going by in blurs while you sat still. She was the moon, that was full, but you know could empty if there ever was a sadness. The emptiness is the part I hated. It was a feeling that made you empty to reciprocate hers, it was a feeling that when she was full she could make you full too. "

― Apollo Figueiredo , A Laugh in the Spoke

17 " It is the same way someone can greet death, to look in her eyes. The light that shone over her black hair whether artificial or natural made it glisten, never choking out the grand her. There is this deep belief that you know that this person has the power to kill you. Even if it does not hurt, even if it is not a pang of pain you feel inside you at every moment that you think will or will never go away. It is there anyways, I think I may think about it everyday and wish it had been different. It was a possible outcome I would have liked to live in. "

― Apollo Figueiredo , A Laugh in the Spoke

18 " All the joints and drinks in the world could only serve to remind me. I imagine myself being Gatsby watching the party that I have thrown to get to where I am. A future where there is a something. Where I am better, where I am something. "

― Apollo Figueiredo , A Laugh in the Spoke

19 " She left me ravenous and wishing upon fireflies for more. Limbs as puzzle pieces we fit together. "

― Apollo Figueiredo , A Laugh in the Spoke

20 " People are scared to talk about death, they fear what is inevitable because it ends the current chapter without knowing if there will be a sequel, but it would be so beautiful to wake up as your flower. Or an atom, part of some distant planet with you. We could collide until we merged like all the physics teachers said was inevitable. Neutrons, protons and some unforeseen gravitational force. We could be drops of UV rays on the skin of some moon. I am always stuck at writing a sentence without you, no writers block would be worth not thinking of you. "

― Apollo Figueiredo , A Laugh in the Spoke