Matthew Adams > Matthew's Quotes

“You can have everything and feel nothing.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“It’s more that there are things I am hesitant to spell out because they are fragile.”
― Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

“Happiness is a form of insubordination in the face of life, I guess.”
― Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

“It’s challenging to write away from the known and the familiar.”
― Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

“My life is lived with a different intensity, not the burning intensity of youth. It’s something else a kind of spiritual audacity…an audacity in the face of things…a kind of reckless refusal to submit to the condition of the world.”
― Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

“The condition of the soul can be treated independently of the situation one finds oneself in.”
― Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

“[T]he luminous and shocking beauty of the everyday is something I try to remain alert to, if only as an antidote to the chronic cynicism and disenchantment that seems to surround everything, these days. It tells me that, despite how debased or corrupt we are told humanity is and how degraded the world has become, it just keeps on being beautiful. It can’t help it.”
― Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

“Hope is optimism with a broken heart.”
― Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.”
― Jamie Anderson