#fe

Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're jaded cunts, in a scene we hate, a city we hate, pretending that we're at the center of the universe, trashing ourselves with crap drugs to stave off the feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, aware that all we're doing is feeding that paranoia and disenchantment, yet somehow we're too apathetic to stop. Cause, sadly, there's nothing else of interest to stop for. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#drugs #life

There was no up, there was no down. There was a steady, nauseated life five minutes ago, but nothing five minutes from now. And then, very suddenly, there was no 'now. ↗

— Paige Harbison

#sad #tears #life

I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#life #life

Life is a game and every player is cheating. ↗

— Eva Stachniak

#life

One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided. ↗

— Willy Russell

#life

The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#life

You can't just skip the boring parts." "Of course I can skip the boring parts." "How do you know they're boring if you don't read them?" "I can tell." "Then you can't say you've read the whole play." "I think I can live a happy life, Meryl Lee, even if I don't read the boring parts of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark." "Who knows?" she said. "Maybe you can't. ↗

— Gary D. Schmidt

#life #philosophy #reading #shakespeare #life

Wahrscheinlich kann man vom Nichtwollen seelisch nicht leben; eine Sache nicht tun wollen, das ist auf Dauer kein Lebensinhalt. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#meaning-of-life #negativity #refusal #resistance #life

Each of us must live off the fruit of his thoughts in the future, because what you think today and tomorrow, next month and next year, you will mold your life and determine your future. You are guided by your mind. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#life

It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die. ↗

— Graham Greene

#life