Benji Madden Quotes

Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.

We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from.

People are constantly not feeling, but numbing themselves, either through medication or playing on their phones. If you start feeling bad, it's like, 'Distract! Distract! Put on Storage Wars!' And I know because I'm guilty of it, too.

Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.

Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways to escape - all addictions stem from this moment when we meet our edge and we just can't stand it. We feel we have to soften it, pad it with something, and we become addicted to whatever it is that seems to ease the pain.

Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.

Daydreamin' drugs the pain of living.

Don't face the facts.

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

'Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us.

I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our lives. If I'm constantly brooding about my children or career, I won't notice that I'm lonely. If I grapple continuously with logistical problems, I can avoid contemplating little issues like, say, my own mortality.

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

I'll close my eyes really, really tight and make you all go away.

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

Work is a great blotter up. It stops you thinking, which is useful. No, it stops you feeling.

If I was performing, I had no pain. But you can't stay on stage 24 hours a day.

Most people try to isolate themselves and pretend like things are all good when a lot of times, that's not how it is.