The Amnesiac Quotes

“I look back at the thousands of days through which I have lived, and feel awed by their inconsequentiality. My life resembles the writing in my diary (or perhaps it’s the other way around): the days, like the sentences, each making a kind of superficial sense of their own, but in the context of the surrounding sentences and days, creating not a narrative or a meaning, but the very opposite: a riddle without solutions, a labyrinth without exits. A chaos.”
― Sam Taylor (, The Amnesiac

“In order to be happy, James understood, one must have not only life, warmth, food, freedom, comfort, health, company, sleep and sanity, one must also think, every day, of the imminent, everpresent danger of losing these gifts; one must see, feel, breathe the perpetual possibility that one could be dead, cold, hungry, enslaved, in pain, ill, lonely, insomniac or mad. No wonder happiness is so rare, thought James: it is fucking hard work.”
― Sam Taylor, The Amnesiac

“That’s the trouble with people who spend all their time thinking. They never actually bloody notice anything.”
― Sam Taylor, The Amnesiac