Jeff Lindsay Quotes

I related to his disillusionment. Thinking that he was going for this big dream. Then he kind of saw through it all at one point and went back home. Then he started a bender, which I can relate to of course.

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

I did a bit of running away when my mam passed away. I didn't go back to work; I started drinking quite a lot, and I know how damaging that can be.

Sometimes I wish I was just a simple drunkard.

To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.

Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

I would be lying if I didn't admit there might be a scene in the movie where there might be alcohol in my system.

None of it seems real. Who knows? Maybe it isn’t. Maybe it’s actually happening to someone else. Maybe it’s something I imagined. Maybe soon I’m going to wake up and find everything fixed with Lissa and Dimitri. We’ll all be together, and he’ll be there to smile and hold me and tell me everything ‘s going to be okay. Maybe all of this really has been a dream. But I don’t think so.

Books and beer are the best and worst defense.

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

I'll be drunk again to feel a little love.

Your guess is as good as mine. Better probably, because you haven't had four beers.

And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.

For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

A drunk was in front of a judge. The judge says "You've been brought here for drinking." The drunk says "Okay, let's get started.

The important thing is to be drunk.

If you don't think you've got the blues, just keep living, and if you don't think you're drunk, just keep drinking what you're drinking.

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.

Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of it's name.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses.

When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life.

Im either running from life or im just waiting to die im the supplier or fire if you chasing a high.

Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.