Ecstasy Quotes

“When two people were in love you had to leave them to it. Especially when you weren't in love and wished that you were. That could embarrass. That could hurt.”
― Irvine Welsh, Ecstasy

“It was the books I started reading.
It was the music I started listening to. It was the television I started watching.
I found myself thinking again. I tried to stop because it was only causing pain.
I couldn't.
Wen all this is in your head it has to come out into your life. If it doesn't, you get crushed. I'm not going to get crushed.”
― Irvine Welsh, Ecstasy

“The Victim was a chronic fuck-up. People Like her always seemed to hang out with The Poisonous Cunt. In turn, she kept their self-esteem low and made sure that they stayed in psychic immiseration. She was a curator of dead souls.”
― Irvine Welsh, Ecstasy

“A lot of men are wankers cause they don’t mind bad sex, but for a woman bad sex is far worse than no sex at all.”
― Irvine Welsh, Ecstasy

“As if the physical proximity can make up for the emotional distance.”
― Irvine Welsh, Ecstasy

“The trick was to consume as quickly as possible; in doing it this way there was a sense that the body could be cheated.”
― Irvine Welsh, Ecstasy

“She’s so fucking beautiful it don’t bear thinking about. I could hardly keep my eyes on the fucking road. I sort of felt like I was wasting time whenever I wasn’t looking at her face.”
― Irvine Welsh, Ecstasy

“The politics of the last twenty years in Britain are liars' politics. The problem is we are ruled by the weak and the small-minded, who are too stupid to know that they are weak and small-minded.”
― Irvine Welsh, Ecstasy

“Me abraza con fuerza, pero no hay amor ni ternura. Sólo desesperación. Quizá tenga que ver con la conciencia de que me estoy alejando de él, alejándome de este mundo que él quiere que habite: su mundo, el mundo que no compartimos.”
― Irvine Welsh, Ecstasy

“No ambition but to use up the big wages on more drink and more hopeless horses.”
― Irvine Welsh, Ecstasy

“We don’t really communicate […]. We talk all right, talk in that strange language we’ve evolved for the purposes of avoiding communication. That non-language we’ve created. Perhaps it’s a sign that civilisation is regressing. Something is anyway.”
― Irvine Welsh, Ecstasy

“This is a bit like being accused of shagging the sister ah don’t have.”
― Irvine Welsh, Ecstasy

“Whoa it’s still coming and I’m thinking now is the time to fall in love now now now but not with the world with that one special her, just do it, just do it now, just change your whole fuckin life in the space of a heartbeat, do it now… but nah… this is just entertainment…”
― Irvine Welsh, Ecstasy

“Hugh rolls his eyes in the direction of my mother as if to apologize for my behavior. We agree in silence to change the subject and my dad says, -It wouldnae do if we all had the same opinions, would it? The rest of the evening is pretty uneventful. Outside, in the car as we leave, Hugh says to me, -Somebody was a bit bolshy this evening. -All I did was to say what I believe to be true. Why such a big deal? -I wasn’t making a big deal. You were. There was no need to be so combative. -I wasn’t being combative. -I think you were a little, honey, he smiles, shaking his head. He looks that kind of wee-boy way and I want to kill him because of the horrible tenderness I feel inside towards him. -You’re some broad, baby, he says then in an American gangster accent, and squeezes my leg. I’m happy to seethe inwardly as the tenderness evaporates.”
― Irvine Welsh, Ecstasy

“Acid, man, fuck that, never again, never until the next time at any rate.”
― Irvine Welsh, Ecstasy