784 quotes found
“One who will not accept solitude, stillness and quiet recurring moments...is caught up in the wilderness of addictions; far removed from an original state of being and awareness. This is 'dis-ease.”
“People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.”
“There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original impulse that can only be described as sacred. So...”
“It is only the Creator that can set thy soul free from every struggle.”
“I am a work in progress.”
“There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.”
“Its easier for me to make sense of it that way than it is for me to face the other wayreality. And yet, those evil spirits that were unleashedbe they fake entities from a stupid carnival ride, or c...”
“Listen, well come visit you. Okay? Ill dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickinson, and beautiful Ray as someone dashing and manly like Jules Verne or Ernest Hemingway...and well wri...”
“society's been drugging its women for years”
“I think of drug dealers like I think of my father never really there when you want them to be.”
“Always make your familial environment a safe and inviting place.”
“I know that my grandmother certainly did nothing to warrant my mother stealing all of her jewelry that my grandfather had given her as gifts over the years, just so she could peddle it for heroin o...”
“I think Amy Winehouse's decision not to go to rehab was a bad one. In fact, I think it was the worst idea since Dodi Al Fayed said to Princess Diana, "Ooh, look! A tunnel! Whack that seat belt off ...”
“I wind up stretched across the couchstill nodding with Sherlock Holmesexamining our crushed veins”
“I leave the kitchen table to bathe, and to dress for church. If only my closet held on its shelves an array of faces I could wear rather than dresses, I would know which face to put on today. As fo...”
“Bookworms are the most precious worms in the world when they are humans, feeding upon the paper's body with their starving minds.”
“It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.”
“This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.”
“In the beginning, the taste of power is sweet, savored on the tongue, like fine wine. It whispers promises in your ear and pretends to be your friend. It is easy to become addicted to this feeling.”
“Consumption can be a remedy against boredom and may convey a sense of fictitious power and supremacy, by standing out from the crowd through the extravagance of the expenditure. As it becomes an ad...”
