Andre Malraux Quotes

All the Hennessy and weed can't hide, the pain i feel inside, its like I'm living just to die.

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Do you want a sign that you're asleep? Here it is: you're suffering. Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch with the truth. Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth, that you might understand that there's falsehood somewhere, just as physical pain is given to you so you will understand that there is disease or illness somewhere. Suffering occurs when you clash with reality. When your illusions clash with reality, when your falsehoods clash with truth, then you have suffering. Otherwise there is no suffering.

Here ah am in the junky's limbo; too sick tae sleep, too tired tae stay awake. A twilight zone ay the senses where nothing's real except the crushing, omnipresent misery n pain in your mind n body.

Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.

We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don't know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.

I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.

Anything that consoles is fake.

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

Hope is the denial of reality.

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

I never really liked Hollywood. I found it unreal - unreal and full of men and women whose lives were confused and full of pain.

People are hurting, and they feel very disengaged and disenfranchised.

For 30 years, I lived in pure hell.

A sensitive person is seldom happy with the world the way it is. And since you cannot change it, you think, 'Might as well numb the anguish.' If you're using something to escape reality, then it's something you need to address.

Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.

I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.

Unhappiness was my god.

Choose life … I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin?