Life is so full of rough edges – small tasks and expectations that scratch you bloody and remind you that you’re naked and alone.

I like Alexander McQueen’s work a lot: he’s always pushing boundaries, and he’s rough around the edges.

I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.

Sure it could get rough sometimes, but life wasn’t a Hollywood movie. Shit happened. You fought, you screamed, and somehow you worked like hell to get out the other side still intact.

Suicide is okay. I see my cousin as a courageous man for commit to it’s seductive call. It’s a short rough ride to guaranteed silence which we are so desperate for. The courage to go...

Under the rough and ridiculous circumstances of life in the Rocky Mountains there was something exciting and vital, full of rude poetry: the heartbeat of the West as it fought its way upward toward civilization.

On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.

With callused handsi tastedthe softness of the moonin the coldest windsi discoveredmy soul’s warmest fireplacein the roughnessof his stubblethe tenderest love.

Rough love. Hard, edgy love. Love that made you bleed. Love hard to find, the kind of love you fought to keep.

Poems are soft kitten furs. smoothing out the rough edges of my world.

I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood.

The competition is pretty rough these days.

The toughness of any journey means absolutely nothing to a mind that travels with the spirit of perseverance.

We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.

There is no reason for you to ever stop walking with faith, because you are amazingly built to win regardless of how tough or rough your challenges are.

I don’t like to play rough, but I will if I have to.

I want to see the thirstinside the syllablesI want to touch the firein the sound:I want to feel the darknessof the cry. I wantwords as roughas virgin rocks.” – Verb.

It’s rough being a teenager in this day and age.