Faithfull Quotes

“To call someone mad is an easy way of dismissing them. The minute you say someone is crazy, they stop being human.”
― Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull

“Chris Black-well, who owned Island Records. Blackwell loved the tracks and said, “Let’s take it the whole way.” My God, we were on! We cut the rest of”
― Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull: An Autobiography

“cigarettes he smoked. As if he were the Duke of”
― Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull: An Autobiography

“to that. You couldn’t go through that. You just”
― Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull: An Autobiography

“The whole Redlands business gave a patina of gravity to his personality”
― Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull: An Autobiography

“You can’t get rid of me that easily,” I replied (there’s a little bit of truth in all kidding). “Don’t be so silly, darling. God, I thought I’d really lost you this time.” “Wild horses,” I said, “wouldn’t drag me away.” My mother was there, too. I think she’d been by my side the entire six days. Mick had been drumming back and forth from the movie location. Nothing stops Mick when he’s working, not even an attempted suicide! I wouldn’t expect different.”
― Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull: An Autobiography

“In severe melancholia, pain and anger become so intense that you eventually split yourself into two entities. You disconnect from the hated, humiliated part of yourself. You say to it: 'You're obviously sick and you're going to do something dreadful, so now I am going to separate from you and become autonomous.' You decide to dispose of it, to kill it off. You imagine you will be able to watch as it jumps out of the window, and rid yourself of it forever. This is such insanity and you go so mad that you believe that there will be a physical part of you that won't be killed. A part of you, you think, will be left behind to watch the Bad You fall to its destruction, to observe your own death and gloat and say: 'Ha! ha! ha! See, I got you! Fool!' But halfway down you realize that you have made a terrible mistake. There is no other half. There's no one left to gloat. The joke is on you, but you're not laughing anymore.

In the split second between your vengeful act and extinction you always regret it. I know because I did when I took the sleeping pills in Australia. You have a moment of truth where you see your gesture for what it is. Which is a very petty thing. It's a hostile act. And it's insane because you're trying to get back at things through an act of such ultimate revenge that it involves your own annihilation. At just that instant you hit the ground and it's all over.”
― Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull

“secretary would book me on the flight in business”
― Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull: An Autobiography

“you’re involved with, if you get half a chance. I treated”
― Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull: An Autobiography

“Club, tonight, man, don’t you see?” “Please, Anita, coals to Newcastle! Mercy!” “Don’t think twice about it, baby. It’ll be outrageous, man. I will be your angel from hell. At”
― Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull: An Autobiography

“mysterious errand. It was Dylan’s day off and he”
― Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull: An Autobiography

“the house. She was ashamed about the Mars Bar”
― Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull: An Autobiography

“what it was. They wanted Andrew too, of course, and he was petrified. He basically stayed out of the country until it was all over, which is one of the”
― Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull: An Autobiography

“he was petrified. He basically stayed out of the”
― Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull: An Autobiography

“but embarrassment.”
― Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull: An Autobiography

“contents you have ever seen: incredibly lumpy”
― Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull: An Autobiography

“very small and it will disappear. This”
― Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull: An Autobiography

“Schneiderman (alias David Britton alias David Henry)”
― Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull: An Autobiography

“Oh, he’s smitten all right, Marianne.” “Is he, really?”
― Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull: An Autobiography

“Is he, really?”
― Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull: An Autobiography

“know anything about the Holy Grail, and I have to admit he ran with the ball.”
― Marianne Faithfull, Faithfull: An Autobiography