Quote

You don't understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.

Adam Duritz

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Adam Duritz
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 1
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Baltimore
Maryland
Adam Fredric Duritz
Better
Take
Much
Something
Embrace
Life
Worse
Understand
Makes

More quotes by Adam Duritz

Image
We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can't get across that gully.
Adam Duritz
Image
I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don't embrace the things that could make it better because they don't seem to make it better at any given moment or we can't decide how to get across the aisle to that person.
Adam Duritz
Image
My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.
Adam Duritz
Image
Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.
Adam Duritz
Image
Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
Adam Duritz
Image
There's people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.
Adam Duritz
Image
For all the things I'm losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.
Adam Duritz
Image
When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
Adam Duritz
Image
You aren't really writing about what you did you're writing about how you feel.
Adam Duritz
Image
If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...
Adam Duritz
Image
Time and time again I can't please myself.
Adam Duritz
Image
People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
Adam Duritz
Image
Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful that's part of my mental illness, social anxiety. Closeness to other people is really hard, but it's also a shame because it's all you want too. But it doesn't always work.
Adam Duritz
Image
If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
Adam Duritz
Image
I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
Adam Duritz
Image
A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
Adam Duritz
Image
Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It's really, like, physically painful, and it's a brand of crazy I don't appreciate having.
Adam Duritz
Image
Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
Adam Duritz
Image
I'm not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn't have to be as lonely as it is.
Adam Duritz
Image
When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
Adam Duritz