Diary of a Drug Fiend Quotes

“Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body to relieve oneself of the strain of thinking, just as exercising the muscles helps the body to become temporarily unconscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and the foreknowledge of its doom.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“Your kiss is bitter with cocaine.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“The increase of knowledge has forced
the thinker to specialise, with the result that there is nobody capable to deal with civilisation as a whole. We are playing a game of chess in which nobody can see more than two or three squares at once, and so it has become impossible to form a coherent plan.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“Половина всех наших бед происходит от того, что мы признаем, что они есть, поэтому если мы забудем про их существование, то они и в самом деле прекратят существование.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend