C.D. Payne Quotes

Wherever you go in the next catastrophéBe it sickroom, or prison, or cemet’ryDo not fear that your stay will besolit’ryCountless souls share your fate, you’ll have company!

May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.

I fear it is my lot, to bide my days in hunchbacked thought, to find what I forgot.

I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.

I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was the only thing that I believed in, and the only thing that believed in me.

From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent, It only can be squandered.

[As a very young man, I thought] of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen.

The artist's greatest creation beganthe night he washed his memory of his failuresrubbed opium on his lipsdrank the wine that women offered himand lay down and wept.

To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious.

All that I desire in life are three...A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea, A puff of opium, And thee.

Ah, youth!It was a beautiful night...The moon was out of orbit.The stars were awry.But everything else was exactlyas it should have been.

Being the Novelist-in-Residence at a riad hotel in the kasbah of an Arabic North African city is a lot like trying to write one’s memoirs on shreds of napkins in a nuthouse.

A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite of passion.

The birthing wolf, Her heart fed with tenderness, Gave forth from ripe brown nipples, Food to feed the universe.

....it struck her that that perhaps everyone had the ability to see themselves in others. Even in the rocks. Even in the roses.

I would rather die than hate.

Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that made my life feel sacred and holy.

No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman’s voice.

Consistency also teaches us that some things do not change, though we may wish they would. Not everything bends to our personal preferences.

Simplification establishes an unspoken emphasis on relationship.

We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, We take to smoke divine and wine.If breath of sun does belch its heat, we boil coffee and prepare to eat.

We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, we take to smoke divine and wine. If breath of sun does belch its heat, we boil coffee and prepare to eat.

My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight.Her hands asleep beside her.Her hair draped on the lawnlike a mantle of cloth.I give her my troth, for our love is wholeI sing her beauty in my soul

Women are extraordinary creatures!

Think More Not Less.

Love was not the point and pity was a poor man's pride.

My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight.Her hands asleep beside her.Her hair draped on the lawnlike a mantle of cloth.I give her my lifefor our love is wholeI sing her beauty in my soul.

Being comfortable with who you are is the ultimate threat.

Being comfortable with who you are is the ultimate threat!----You Killed Wesley Payne

I was afraid of the dance once, too. But I learned to embrace it and the mistakes I would make. Do not turn away from your fear. Turn toward love instead.

Always remember that your memoir is never about you. It's about your reader. At it's core, it's about that shared space where we all experience the timeless truths of what it means to be human.

Wine gives one 'ideas, ' whereas champagne gives one 'strategies.

When we appear to be “more a loser than a victor” on the Path it is easy to lose sight of the fact that we are growing spiritually.

A group of owls is called a parliament, wisdom, or study.

...see the blessing and beauty that you are.

A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.

Indeed, there is nothing on this earth more peaceful than a sleeping, purring cat.

Your transformation will be the miracle.

Who worries for dying? If I close my eyes tonight, I will either dream, or not, or my eyes will open and I will be here again. And if none of those happen, and I do not wake? Who worries for dying?

A girl without braids is like a city without bridges.

What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born.

A girl without braidsis like a city without bridges.

If you love my work, you are a good critic. If you do not love my work, you are a 'not good' critic.

Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward, you will ask no other.

No one is born beneath this dance. This dance gives birth to you.

The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us protect the novelist and adore him, with pity, honor, and love.

Visions from the gods are gifts alone for those who wander.

It's easy to move on when things are so bad that you can't stand them anymore. It's harder when they're just mediocre.

You know you have received the invitation when your heart is ready to risk everything to hold the hand of God.

Where the rivers meetyou tell me of your black dreams.Your memories make me uneasy.But I listen because I knowmy listening, like all other listeningallows you to heal.