Top 35 R. K. Milholland Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The shortest verse in the Bible is ‘Jesus wept.’ The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.”

— R. K. Milholland

2. “Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.”

— R. K. Milholland

3. “In the end, you’ll know which people really love you. They’re the ones who see you for who you are and, no matter what, always find a way to be at your side.”

— R. K. Milholland

4. “Friendship is being there when someone’s feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.”

— R. K. Milholland

5. “Lies are like children. If you don’t nurture them, they’ll never be useful later.”

— R. K. Milholland

6. “Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds.”

— R. K. Milholland

7. “Sometimes the measure of friendship isn’t your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.”

— R. K. Milholland

8. “The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them.”

— R. K. Milholland

9. “The only thing that lasts longer than a friend’s love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.”

— R. K. Milholland

10. “It’s not a matter of whether or not someone’s watching over you. It’s just a question of their intentions.”

— R. K. Milholland

11. “You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that’s perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.”

— R. K. Milholland

12. “A birthday wish granted 23 years late is still a birthday wish granted.”

— R. K. Milholland

13. “Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren’t distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.”

— R. K. Milholland

14. “We all have a few failures under our belt. It’s what makes us ready for the successes.”

— R. K. Milholland

15. “Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.”

— R. K. Milholland

16. “Sometimes people do things that hurt and it’s not because they mean to. They just do. It doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with you, but you end up hurt because of it.”

— R. K. Milholland

17. “The grass is always greener once you don’t have to mow a lawn anymore.”

— R. K. Milholland

18. “You can’t show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.”

— R. K. Milholland

19. “Ah, sweet alcohol. Like a true friend, you replace the anger with better, louder anger.”

— R. K. Milholland

20. “Success only hurts the first time.”

— R. K. Milholland

21. “In the end, we decide if we’re remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.”

— R. K. Milholland

22. “That’s the thing about marriage. It’s a shell game we play with ourselves. We’re the suckers and we have to lose, but we play anyway because we lie to ourselves that we can win.”

— R. K. Milholland

23. “Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful.”

— R. K. Milholland

24. “The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman.”

— R. K. Milholland

25. “Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.”

— R. K. Milholland

26. “It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn’t match what you dreamed it would be.”

— R. K. Milholland

27. “Why do we have to wait for special moments to say nice things or tell people we care about them?”

— R. K. Milholland

28. “There are people I know who won’t hurt me. I call them corpses.”

— R. K. Milholland

29. “Things aren’t magically better if that’s what you’re hoping for. It’s not that simple.”

— R. K. Milholland

30. “I guess that’s how death works. It doesn’t matter if we’re ready or not. It just happens.”

— R. K. Milholland

31. “Forgiveness is one of the many horrible side effects of loving someone.”

— R. K. Milholland

32. “Death likes it when you play hard to get.”

— R. K. Milholland

33. “The only time anyone’s admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they’re better than me.”

— R. K. Milholland

34. “Desperate is not a sexual preference.”

— R. K. Milholland

35. “Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you’d rather be lazy and dead sooner.”

— R. K. Milholland

36. “Ed Wood served a great purpose – mainly making writers feel better about their work.”

— R. K. Milholland

37. “That’s the thing with suicide pacts. Sometimes they only really work if they catch you by surprise.”

— R. K. Milholland

38. “People age even when you’re not looking.”

— R. K. Milholland