If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain…
ADAM DURITZStep out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It’s really, like, physically painful, and it’s a brand of crazy I don’t appreciate having.
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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You don’t understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.
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I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it’s such a common, constant thing in people’s lives – a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it’s just accepted.
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You get so used to doing it that you start to believe it’s simply what everyone does. It makes for an atmosphere of unwelcome that penetrates much of our modern life.
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There’s people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.
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I’m so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I’m breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life.
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For all the things I’m losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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That’s where the songs come from: that’s what I’d most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that’s nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else’s heart.
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I’m not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn’t have to be as lonely as it is.
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Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that’s part of my mental illness, social anxiety.
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I can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
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We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can’t get across that gully.
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