Quotes from Andrew Davidson

All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.

The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, he would never hold Him to be God.

If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.

Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.

I am more than my scars.

but the truth is that I dislike most men as much as I dislike women. If anything, I am an equal opportunity misanthropist.

You'll swoop from incredible highs when you're just glad to be alive, to those lows when you wish you were dead. And just when you start thinking that you've accepted who you are, that changes, too. Because who you are is not permanent

I understand that some people find God after misfortune, although this seems to me even more ridiculous than finding Him in good times. 'God smote me. He must love me.' It's like not wanting a romantic relationship until a member of the opposite sex punches you in the face. My 'miraculous survival' will not change my opinion that Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short, and paradoxically, far too long.

It doesn't matter how fast you move, if you never go anywhere.

All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.

If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches

Love is an action you must repeat ceaselessly.

Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.

Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.

There I lay, wearing dead people as armor against death.

With every fragment of rock that fall from me, I can hear the voice of Marianne Engle. I love you. Aishiteru. Ego amo te. Ti amo. Eg elska pig. Ich liebe dich. It is moving across time, coming to me in every language of the world, and it sounds like pure love.

Some day soon," Lance said, "you'll walk out of here and have to decide how you're going to live the rest of your lives. Will you be defined by what other people see, or by the essence of your soul?

Boredom was my bedmate and it was hogging the sheets.

If you're going through hell, keep going [as stolen from Winston S. Churchill]

Perhaps there are just some things you leave behind when you choose a new life.

There is no logical reason to believe in God. There are emotional reasons, certainly, but I cannot have faith that nothing is something simply because it would be reassuring. I can no more believe in God than I can believe an invisible monkey lives in my ass; however, I would believe in both if they could be scientifically proven.

My skin will never work like that again, so aware of the other person that I'm unsure where she ends and I begin. Never again. Never again will my skin be a thing that can so perfectly communicate; in losing my skin to the fire, I also lost the opportunity to make it disappear with another person.

My first, and most lasting, addiction has always been to the obsessive study of any matter that took hold of my curiosity.

God cannot be referred to as 'good,' 'better,' or 'best' because He is above all things. If a man says that God is wise, the man is lying because anything that is wise can become wiser. Anything that a man might say about God is incorrect... The best a man can do is to remain silent...The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, he would never hold Him to be God.