Devil in a Coma

Mark Lanegan

Top 10 Best Quotes

“It's hard to know where you are when you're trying to read a map by the light of a falling star.”

“Each and every time I walked out into the dark, I only ever came part of the way back.”

“I've never enjoyed being fully present, a muted reality has been the landscape I've preferred and mainly inhabited forever. Sure, feeling is good, but not too much, and if someone is able to get away with suffering devastating loss, massive regret, heartache, physical agony, mental instability, isolation, humiliation, abuse, incarceration, depression, tragedy etc. with a blanket of chemical protection, then who can say it's wrong?”

“I never joined an army, instead I fought an imaginary war my entire life and was the only casualty.”

“This is God's country, or so it is said, but it is also death's country - don't forget that.”

“This illness also seemed to unlock something in my subconscious, and I was dreaming more than I had ever remembered doing before.”

“The only memories I could muster were all attached to something I'd rather forget. The future was an unpromising unknown, and I could only look to the long-dead past for comfort, but it seemed as though there was not one unsullied moment to grab onto. I had spent my life in the shadows, facilitating my own and others undoing, taking on nearly any dark task that came my way, every action a means to an end, the end being oblivion.”

“The myopia that largely dogged me my entire life kept me rooted in the here and now, and hardly anything else ever crossed my mind, especially if it was to take place in some far-off distant future never-never land. Such places did not exist in my limited scope of reality.”

“The harsh injustice of ageing and the helplessness of infirmity was more than I could take. I swore I would die before I ended up like that.”

“The dysfunctional home life I enjoyed made me place me reliance strictly on myself and nobody else, I trusted no one and no one should have trusted me either, I was only in it for yours truly and stood directly in the centre of the world, the only wolf in the pack.”

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