I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don’t embrace the things that could make it better because they don’t seem to make it better at any given moment or we can’t decide how to get across the aisle to that person.
ADAM DURITZYou 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.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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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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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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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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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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I’ve spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else.
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It’s a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.
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Your misery is everyone else’s entertainment.
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I’m really good in a crisis, because I don’t panic.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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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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You want to embrace, but I can’t figure out how to hold on to it.
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I feel like I’ve been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It’s all you want, but it’s terrifying.
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There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
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If you want to really love someone, you’ve got to let go and loosen up and just care.
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Got no place to go, but there’s a girl waitin’ for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.
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