Quotes by Kevin Powers

Kevin Powers

All choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices of all the other men and women deciding anything in that moment.

Choices

Illusion

Men

All pain is the same. Only the details are different.

Details

Different

Pain

As human beings, we have the blessing and the curse that we’re able to adapt to almost anything. No matter how extreme the circumstances you’re in, they become normal.

Blessing

Matter

Normal

But I remember being told that the truth does not depend on being believed.

Depends

Doe

Remember

Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.

Accountability

I can’t envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.

Honest

Light

War

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

Boundaries

Prose

I had the feeling that if I encountered anyone they would intuit my disgrace and would judge me instantly. Nothing is more isolating than having a particular history. At least that’s what I thought. Now I know: all pain is the same. Only the details are different.

Feelings

Judging

Pain

I knew that at least a few of the stars I saw were probably gone already, collapsed into nothing. I felt like I was looking at a lie. But I didn’t mind. The world makes liars of us all.

Liars

Life

Stars

I know that the writers I read and admire all have an influence on my work, but trying to determine to what degree any particular piece of input changes the way I think about writing seems counterproductive.

Thinking

Trying

Writing

Follow The Behaviour University in order to get the greatest quotes from the greatest people of all time so that you can tap into your own greatness.

Accountability

Aspiration

Bird

Blessing

Boundaries

Brain

Choices

Comfort

Depends

Details

Differences

Different

Distinction

Doe

Dream

Drowning

Energy

Exhaling

Expectations

Facts

Fall

Father

Feelings

Fighting

Giving

Giving Up

Home

Honest

Illusion

Importance

Iraq

Judging

Kind

Letting Go

Liars

Life

Light

Littles

Long

Looks

Matter

Memories

Men

Military

Mind

News

Normal

Pain

People

The Future Blueprint

Tool

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

Tool

The Autobiography

Tool

The Behaviour Diary

Tool

The Dating Diary

Tool

The Relationship Therapist

Tool

Quotes by Kevin Powers

Kevin Powers

All choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices of all the other men and women deciding anything in that moment.

All pain is the same. Only the details are different.

As human beings, we have the blessing and the curse that we’re able to adapt to almost anything. No matter how extreme the circumstances you’re in, they become normal.

But I remember being told that the truth does not depend on being believed.

Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.

I can’t envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

I had the feeling that if I encountered anyone they would intuit my disgrace and would judge me instantly. Nothing is more isolating than having a particular history. At least that’s what I thought. Now I know: all pain is the same. Only the details are different.

I knew that at least a few of the stars I saw were probably gone already, collapsed into nothing. I felt like I was looking at a lie. But I didn’t mind. The world makes liars of us all.

I know that the writers I read and admire all have an influence on my work, but trying to determine to what degree any particular piece of input changes the way I think about writing seems counterproductive.

Get Social with TBU

Topics by Kevin Powers

Popular Tools

The Future Blueprint

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

The Autobiography

The Behaviour Diary

The Dating Diary

The Relationship Therapist

Menu

Menu