#diction

I feel very privileged to hear how somebody used to run around stickin' people up and stealing cars, and now they're gettin' their life back together... I just love the stories. The stories of the fallen world, they excite us. That's the interesting stuff. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#conflict #drugs #life

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#alchohol #drinking #drugs #loneliness #melancholy

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#human-being #life #personality #prediction #reaction

It is never easy being the one who takes the first step. But if we want things to mature in our life, we must fight for them relentlessly without compromise or excuse. ↗

— M.W. Moore

#autobiograhpy #bi-sexual #life

There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?' If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble. ↗

— Sam Keen

#clinging #codependency #dysfunctional-relationship #howard-thurman #manhood

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#consciousness #elixir-of-life #life #mornings #life

The need to find out what will happen if I don't relent or moderate my actions has been a constant source of difficulty and discomfort in my life. ↗

— Russell Brand

#life

What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don't want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don't want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#heart #love #love

abstraction, n. Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when I curl into a pillow that isn't you, when I hear the tiptoe sounds that aren't yours. It's not as if I can conjure you up completely. I must embrace the idea of you instead. ↗

— David Levithan

#love #lover-s-dictionary #love

May those who love us love us.And those that don't love us,May God turn their hearts.And if He doesn't turn their hearts,May he turn their ankles,So we'll know them by their limping. ↗

— Irish Curse

#don-t-love #love #malediction #prayer #love