Anthony Kiedis Quotes

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.

I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.

I never hurt anybody; I only hurt myself and my family. I never did anything mean to anybody, I was just mean to myself.

All the shitty stuff people do to themselves... it can all be the same thing, you know? Just a way to drown out your own voice. To kill your memories without having to kill yourself.

A pill to make you numb A pill to make you dumb A pill to make you anybody else But all the drugs in this world Won't save her from herself.

Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.

She sometimes thought she was going crazy. Her first thought when she woke up was always how to get him out of her thoughts. And she would keep watch, hoping to see him next door, while plotting ways to never have to see him again.

When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.

Nobody's trying to kill you, Deirdre. You're killing yourself.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. Gray is not a color I wear well. I should be dead. I know that. I should not be successful. I know that too. My daily existence is a toss of the coin - one side, fear, the other side, gratitude.

No one consciously wants to destroy themselves. It always comes in a disguise. But then you have to deal with it some way.

What is most difficult is when the large part of me that is a narcissist grows weary and is overtaken by the self-loathing part that always lurks in the shadows waiting for an opportunity to shine.

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Sometimes I want to party, sometimes I want to fight and sometimes I want to cry.

What feeds me destroys me.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

From January to December of 2019, I crumbled, to be real, and I think by the end of 2019 I had beaten myself up in every possible way to the point where I wasn't even a person. I was fully at rock bottom.

When you're at war with yourself, you will go under.

I have trouble keeping a lid on the self-hatred.