Rod McKuen Quotes

“And if the world breaks down, I'll be around.”

“Crowded rooms and lonesome tunes and very little sky.”

“I want to see the world within the circle of your arms and sail the wide sea of your thighs.”

“I will not ask you where you have been tonight. I'll only say hello and hope.”

“I'm not the first man or the last
who had a thirst to leave the past.”

“I've been going a long time now along the way I've learned some things.

You have to make the good times yourself take the little times and make them into big times and save the times that are all right for the ones that aren't so good.”

“It's nice sometimes
to open up the heart a little
and let some hurt come in.
It proves you're still alive.”

“Now is next to nothing compared to where I've been.”

“Sorry no one could see how beautifully happy we were.”

“Thank you for the sun you brought this morning
even though the sky was full of clouds.”

“These long years later it is worse
for I remember what it was
as well as what it might have been.”

“This is the way it was while I was waiting for your eyes to find me.”

“Watch the indolent butterfly playing on the tall flower in the yard and think about the sun going down. It always does you know.”

“Who is not a love seeker when December comes? Even children pray to Santa Claus.”