Quotes by Irvine Welsh

“We wait and think and doubt and hate. How does it make you feel? The overwhelming feeling is rage. We hate ourself for being unable to be other than what we are. Unable to be better. We feel rage. ...”

“The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want a shufti at, like at that Princess Diana's funeral, they want to scrutinise those who really kne...”

“Ah don't hate the English. They're just wankers. We are colonised by wankers. We can't even pick a decent, vibrant, healthy culture to be colonised by. No. We're ruled by effete arseholes. What doe...”

“Renton looks at her and sees her pain and anger. It cuts himup. It confuses him. Kelly has a great sense of humour. What's wrong with her? The kneejerkthought: Wrong time of the' month is forming i...”

“I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.”

“It unsettles the women as they have dropped their disguise and are now giant praying mantis with blonde and auburn wigs, lipstick smeared on those deadly pincher-like insect jaws.”

“We kissed for a bit and I stopped shaking. We played with each other for a long time, and after we had joined, my cock and her fanny became one thing, then it seemed to vanish as we took off on a b...”

“Okay baby, let's take this rocket to Uranus. This hoor is perfect, and she can act as well.”

“History repeated itself. The 'don't do the things I did' mantra was tiresome pish. The best way to make sure your children don't grow up as cunts is not to be one yourself - or not to let them SEE ...”

“Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith.”

“You can only learn through failure, and what ye learn is the importance ay preparation.”

“This social worker lassie turns round n gies us a stroppy look. Ah jist smiles bit she looked away aw fuckin nippy likes. Disnae cost nowt tae be social. A social worker thit cannae be fuckin socia...”

“Now most people would put this doon tae experience, ye always want what ye cannae have and the things that ye dinnae really gie a toss aboot get handed tae ye oan a plate.”

“There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache and conviction...no, it's because they say ...”

“Bit it's what bein a hard man is aw aboot; its a journey, a fucking self destructive quest tae find yir limits, cause they fuckin limits eywis come in the form ay a harder man. A big. strong, stiff...”

“Living like this is a full-time business.”

“Still, failure, success, what is it? Whae gies a fuck. We aw live, then we die, in quite a short space ay time n w. That's it; end ay fuckin story.”

“Can you taste it Bruce? Can you taste the filth, the dirt, the oily blackness of that fossil fuel in our mouth as you choke and gag and spit it out? Do you still hear his voice in your head urging ...”

“When you hurt some cunt [] its you duty to enjoy it, otherwise youve done it for fuck all, it means nothing”

“When I get home I take some sleeping pills and within what seemed like half an hour of unconsciousness it was Monday morning again.”