Lou Reed Quotes

Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery.

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.

When I was younger, I did self-mutilate. I'd be upset, so I'd do it, & it would calm me down. It's a horrible way to feel better. But there are two parts of your brain - one that really wants to destroy the other. & sometimes the idea of self-destruction is very romantic. I got over that.

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

I had to fight with myself not to hurt people, some serious mental wars.

It seemed to me the way it must feel to people who cut themselves on purpose. Not pretty, but clean. Not good, but void of regret. I was trying to heal. Trying to get the bad out of my system so I could be good again. To cure me of myself.

I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?

Pain in the present is experienced as hurt. Pain in the past is remembered as anger. Pain in the future is perceived as anxiety. Unexpressed anger, redirected against yourself and held within, is called guilt. The depletion of energy that occurs when anger is redirected inward creates depression.

If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.

All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue.

I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father, and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up sometimes.

You're dealing with people who are suiciding slowly. You've got to get to the bottom of what is psychologically motivating them to self-destruct.

Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.

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

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

I am burning myself up and will always do so.

I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

Though very troublesome to others, anger is most so to him that has it.

I can't stop thinking about cutting myself up. Visual bruises can be covered with make-up, but down to the core, I'm all bruises.

I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.

I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I'm definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they're like when you take their preferred substance away.

I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.

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