Glue
Irvine Welsh
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on.”
“We're all like the slaves in the fields now, putting on the front that says 'Everything's fine, boss' while we worry about how to make ends meet.”
“We tend to be rather murky little ponds, containing many layers of suspended dirt and grime and our greatest depths are stirred by the strangest of currents.”
“Some people spend years in counselling trying to cope with being fucked up. I just move on. The fucked-upness always goes. The conventional wisdom is that you're running away, you should learn to cope with being fucked-up. I don't hold with that. Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on.”
“If only he loved himself as much as he loved the rest of the world.”
“IF YOU FEEL HIGH OR LOW, MIND THAT NOTHING GOOD OR BAD LASTS FOREVER AND TODAY'S THE START OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.”
“They try to con you that making that kind of choice day in, day out, makes you feel free or alive or self-actualised. But it's shite, a lifebelt to stop us all from going fuckin mad at the lunacy of this fucked-up world we've let them shape around us.”
“Tae be touched by real love requires great fortune, it's no in your hands.”
“Strange as it was, they cared. They weren't world-weary or blasé. They cared about things; often stupid, trivial things, but they cared. And they cared because they were engaged in a world outside the constructed world of the media and showbusiness. You couldn't care about that world, not really, because it wasn't yours and it never could be.”
“It wasn't our bad habits which really scared us; we got too used to them, they only worried others. It was the odd, unpredictable, brutal impulse you fought to restrain, the one that the rest never even saw and hopefully never would.”
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love, counselling, moving-on, suicide, tragedy, friendship, meaning, moving-on-and-letting-go, media, impulse, counseling, loss, choice, entertainment, fortune, habits, grief
