I can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
ADAM DURITZWe 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.
More Adam Duritz Quotes
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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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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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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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I’ve been playing music most of my life.
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Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
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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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Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren’t hits.
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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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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.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn’t mean you’re fantastic.
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Eventually, they’ll just go away, because you will make them sad. That’s something I’ve proven quite adept at doing over the years.
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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 think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can’t see how to do it.
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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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