Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.
Marian Keyes
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Marian Keyes
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 10
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Writer
Limerick City
Important
Features
Life
Fundamental
Fundamentals
Recognised
Habit
Addict
Interest
Feature
Else
Maintaining
Anything
Recovery
Real
Addiction
More quotes by Marian Keyes
It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose are sometimes-often-neck and neck.
Marian Keyes
Political correctness is a minefield
Marian Keyes
One day we'll all be dead, and none of this will matter -The Brightest Star in the Sky.
Marian Keyes
I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.
Marian Keyes
when happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life,it's important to make the most of it.It may not stay around for long and when it has gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying when the happiness would be taken away.
Marian Keyes
I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves.
Marian Keyes
Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me.
Marian Keyes
smarter than me. But here's the thing my life did get better. I made a decision to let go of my dreams, because they were killing me, and I stopped asking the impossible of myself. I changed my attitude and decided to focus on what I had rather than what i didn't have.
Marian Keyes
I've kind of realized life is meant to be tough and everybody is in psychic and spiritual discomfort of some sort and has a burden to carry. I've realized I'm not special.
Marian Keyes
I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.
Marian Keyes
My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.
Marian Keyes
Her world had shrunk - no matter who she was with, she'd prefer to be with him. That's what happened when you fell in love - you only want to see them.
Marian Keyes
I like hoodies. They just make me feel safe.
Marian Keyes
Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.
Marian Keyes
Love and kindness go hand in hand.
Marian Keyes
Optimism can be relearnt.
Marian Keyes
I've never made a secret of the fact that I'd have loved to have children.
Marian Keyes
Love is an emotion. It can't be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure.
Marian Keyes
I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.
Marian Keyes
The best anyone can do is breathe in, breathe out and wait for it to pass.
Marian Keyes